Shade Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Columbia

* Typical native grass associates in the far western North American coastal prairies are Festuca idahoensis and Nassella pulchra. * Numerous flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3' bearing wide, airy panicles (to 20" long)...

Established plants are drought tolerant. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

* The crushed root has been applied to the body as an insect repellent. * A red dye is obtained from the sap of the root. The seeds have a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants.

* The flowers are yellow–orange or orange–vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced' in appearance with irregular distribution of petals around the face of the flower forming a fanshape.

* Fordhook is a well known and very popular variety of Swiss Chard. Excellent for use in salads or steamed. It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat. * The large stalks are topped by deep green leaves.

Leaves falcate, 3-5, in rosette, as tall as stem. * Rhizome thick, branched. Plant to 20-30 cm. Requires a semi-shaded site and moist but well-drained soil during the vegetative period.

It is partly below ground. * The heart of the plant is very rich in saccharine matter and can be eaten when baked. The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed.

Prefers a moist heavy soil. Hardy to at least -20°c. * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, where it grows in moist meadows,...

The plant has a lignified stem with green branches bearing five to nine leaflets. They can be found at an altitude of 0–1,850 metres (0–6,070 ft). * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around...

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment. The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener.

The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

* The California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in the western United States throughout California , extending to Oregon , southern Washington , Nevada , Arizona , New...

* It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade. * Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions.

Carnation also exhibits this effect. Note that this effect is only visible on the "head" or flower of the plant. * Daucus carota ( common names include wild carrot , (UK) bird's nest , bishop's lace , and (US) Queen Anne's lace ) is a flowering plant...

They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent...

It is native to eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas. * Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle; syn.

Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing 3 feet (90 cm) or more tall. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals.

* Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints. * t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall.

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.

It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies. It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly...

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. Flabellata pumila. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is...

* Plants can be used as a tall ground cover for large areas of land. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts butterflies.

* Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe , northwest Africa and southwest Asia .

* Stored seed remains viable for at least a year and can be sown in spring in the greenhouse but it will probably require a period of cold stratification. It can cause irritation of the mouth and digestive system, and on rare occasions the swelling of...

It is an invasive species in the Great Lakes region where it was first sighted in 1843 . A herb tea is made from thefresh or dried leaves. The leaves are often used in 'mint sauce', which is used as a flavouring in meals.

* Devil's club was widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its pain-relieving properties. * It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines.