Plant For Moist Soil Wildlife Food For Sale In Colorado

* Trees are late coming into leaf (usually late May to June) and lose their leaves early in the autumn (usually in October). * The nuts are an oil-rich food for wildlife. These factors combine to make the trees eminently suitable for a mixed woodland...

Leaves dark green above, lighter green beneath with some rusty hairs, Fall color yellow. Extremely hardy and fond of wet areas and sites with poor drainage; native to central and northeastern U.S. * Logs of wood can be beaten with mauls to separate the...

Culms are topped in late spring with dark green spikelets that are clustered into spherical heads. It typically forms a slowly-spreading clump of upright stems (culms) to 4-5' tall.

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * An orange-red to brown dye can be obtained from the bark. * It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age.

A lime substitute. Long, dark-green leaves are velvety beneath. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink. It is used in preserves.

* It is grown and marketed mainly as pulpwood. * Laurel oak is a medium sized, mostly deciduous oak of the red oak group that typically grows to 40-60' (less frequently to 100') tall with a broad, rounded crown.

Twigs are grayish-green, becoming purplish-red. It is a medium-sized deciduous shrub that is typically found in moist lowland areas, swamp borders, floodplains, shrub wetlands, wet meadows/prairies and along streams and ponds in Eastern and Midwestern...

* Fraser Fir has been used more times as the Blue Room Christmas tree (the official Christmas tree of the President of the United States's White House) than any other type of tree.

* Cornus alba (red-barked or Siberian dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to Siberia, northern China and Korea. * For the brightest winter bark, young shoots are encouraged by cutting to the ground some older stems...

* The original Cook strain of Balsam Fir was selected due to the blue tinge of the needles. * It is more heat tolerant than the species. * The seeds from these improved selections will be more true to type due to continued selection for blue color and...

It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States. The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems.

* They are long-lived trees, commencing to bear seeds when about 30 years old and usually producing heavy crops each year. Resents root disturbance. The seed is mainly distributed by water.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Culms are topped in late spring with dark green spikelets that are clustered into spherical heads. It typically forms a slowly-spreading clump of upright stems (culms) to 4-5' tall.

Crispa, Mountain Alder). * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop.

* Although no specific mention has been seen for this species, the fruits and flowers of many hawthorns are well-known in herbal folk medicine as a heart tonic and modern research has borne out this use.

The fruit provides food for wild life. This species can be found in China and Japan. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October; extremely attractive, smaller...

* The original Cook strain of Balsam Fir was selected due to the blue tinge of the needles. * It is more heat tolerant than the species. * The seeds from these improved selections will be more true to type due to continued selection for blue color and...

* They are long-lived trees, commencing to bear seeds when about 30 years old and usually producing heavy crops each year. Resents root disturbance. The seed is mainly distributed by water.

The fruit provides food for wild life. This species can be found in China and Japan. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October; extremely attractive, smaller...

It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1-2 m tall. * The aromatic fruits and leaves are used either fresh or dried to flavour soups, stews etc. * Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica , native to northern and western Europe and parts...

* Tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humusy, nutrient-rich, neutral to slightly acidic loams. * Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens...

* Fraser Fir has been used more times as the Blue Room Christmas tree (the official Christmas tree of the President of the United States's White House) than any other type of tree.

* Although no specific mention has been seen for this species, the fruits and flowers of many hawthorns are well-known in herbal folk medicine as a heart tonic and modern research has borne out this use.

The yellowish inflorescence appears to emerge from one side of the stem about 20 cm from the top. * It grows in large clumps about 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall at the water's edge along streams and ditches, but can be invasive anywhere with moist soil.

* Calamagrostis canadensis is a species of grass known by the common names bluejoint and Canadian reedgrass . The inflorescence is purplish when in flower, becoming tan later in the season.

* The seedheads resemble small sweetgum balls but do not grow above the foliage. * This sedge is less prone to summer dieback and remains attractive during warm weather. Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes.