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* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

It often goes by the common name Foxtail lily. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across. * The plant was introduced from Central Asia in 1874 and is popular in gardens.

Leaves appear in whorls of 3–5. * The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal dashes. * Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Joe-Pye weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple thoroughwort, is a flowering...

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils.

* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. * The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. * A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. The plant is noted for its effectiveness in treating catarrhal problems of...

* Highly nutritious, the seed contains about 22.7% protein, 48% fat, 9.8% carbohydrate, 7.1% ash. However, although the seeds contain no narcotic alkaloids, analysis of the urine following their ingestion may produce similar results to the analysis of...

* The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid. * Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.

* Fall color is sensational. * Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. * Hardier than green-leaved types.

* Leaves are often used in floral arrangements. * Foliage turns purplish-bronze in winter. * Bergenia (also called heart-leaved bergenia) is a clump-forming perennial which is primarily grown as a ground cover.

Wood - hard, white, fine grained. * In late summer parent has much larger flowers, first white, then purplish-pink, then brown; to 12" x 18", especially large if the shrub is pruned to a few stems.

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

Carpinus cordata, sometimes commonly called heartleaf hornbeam, is a slow-growing, densely-branched, deciduous tree with an attractive rounded form that is native to Japan, Korea and China.

* White, pink, or rose flowers to 6", usually with a crimson base; a swamp plant; very salt tolerant; flowers in late summer; native to eastern U.S. to Michigan, south to Alabama, * The leaves and roots abound in mucilage.

* Spiraea japonica was introduced in North America as an ornamental landscape plant and first cultivated in the northeastern states around 1870. Japonica has been used as traditional medicine by native people, and extracts from the plants were found to...

A slightly bitter flavour, they are added to salads.The leaves are used as a lettuce substitute. Thrives in full sun so long as the soil does not dry out, otherwise it is best grown in partial shade.

If growing them as annuals, plant them out into their permanent positions in early summer and protect them with a frame or cloche until they are growing away well. * The leaves are anodyne, antidotal, demulcent, expectorant and refrigerant.

They make an attractive garnish to salads, and can also be used as a cookedvegetable or in conserves etc. * Single 1 1/2" yellow, blue, white, green, or purple flowers on long stems in spring; the color range is even broader in cultivated varieties; leaves...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native...

* Hamamelis mollis is a species of witch-hazel native to central and eastern China , in Anhui , Guangxi , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangxi , Sichuan , and Zhejiang . Mollis is widely grown as an ornamental plant, valued for the strongly-scented flowers appearing...

Adverse conditions will affect the growth rate, with poor conditions considerably slowing the speed of growth. It grows best when there is ample summer rain and prefers a notable cool spell during its winter resting period.

* When the white corollas have fallen, the calyces develop into deep red expanded lobes which persist into November. Miconioides is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, typically growing to a height of between 4 and 8 m.

* Purplish-red fruit to 1/4", in October, lasts into late winter; yellow-white flowers with pink tints; dull green or blue-green leaves; of spreading habit, with arching branches; native from New Jersey and South Dakota south to Georgia and Texas .

* This grass is sometimes used for stabilizing eroded areas and for vegetating metal-rich soils in reclaimed mines. * This is a perennial bunch grass reaching heights of one to one and a half meters.

Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum. Coarse, aromatic, triangular, doubly-serrate, long-petioled, basal leaves (to 12" long) with cordate bases. Smaller ovate stem leaves are sessile.

* Populus alba , commonly called abele , silver poplar , silverleaf poplar , or white poplar , is a species of poplar , most closely related to the aspens ( Populus sect. It grows in moist sites, often by watersides, in regions with hot summers and cold...

* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .