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* Its typical habitat is moist shaded woodland, growing in accumulated humus. The pinnate leaves usually have five soft green leaflets, although three and seven occur as well, each with a shape ranging from lanceolate-oblong to rhombic, and a pattern...

Distribution of this grass species is widespread including the eastern and western extremes of North America, parts of South America and Eurasia. * Deschampsia cespitosa , commonly known as Tufted Hair-grass or Tussock grass is a wild plant from the grass...

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina. * Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years.

In humans, M1 is detected in plasma from 7 hours after the intake of ppd-type ginsenosides and in urine from 12 hours after the intake. American species of ginseng is said to have similar properties to the Oriental ginseng, P.

), is a medicinal plant of the Liliaceae (lily family) or Melanthiaceae which is native to Europe . * Veratrum album , commonly known as the False Helleborine (also known as White Hellebore , European White Hellebore , White Veratrum ; syn.

* The plant most of us think of as Bleeding Heart; extremely popular, and for good reason; each arching spike, often held horizontally, is lined with an elegant row of pink and white "hearts"; flowers in May in New York; may die back to the ground in...

* Dianthus caryophyllus ( Clove Pink ) is a species of Dianthus . It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years.

* Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers to almost 3'; native to China. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread.

It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians. Caution is advised. They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris. * Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called...

* Performs better than Campanula in Southern gardens. * Prefers well-drained soil. * Use for border garden. * Many Adenophora species have been used in traditional Chinese medicine.

* This is an outstanding ornamental that can be used as an effective screen or accent plant. * Parent has an abundance of pinkish plumes. * Noxious weed in California.

* Perennial with characteristic palmate leaves. It should also be possible to sow the seed in situ in mid spring. Each leaf has 6 to 9 narrow leaflets. Seeds are produced in pea like pods.

* An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. It requires a deep rich soil with plenty of moisture. Does well in a bog garden. * The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae .

A tea made from the berries has a spicy gin-like flavour. Alpina , Vitosha , Bulgaria . * Juniperus communis subsp. * A tea is made by boiling the leaves and stems. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated.

Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World . * Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia .

* The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year. Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame. The seed can be slow to germinate.

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

* Striking in the woodland garden; likes woodland soil; red berries in fall. * The leaves are trifoliate, with groups of three leaves growing together at the top of one long stem produced from a corm ; each leaflet is 8-15 cm long and 3-7 cm broad.

* Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry.

Requires a semi-shaded site and moist but well-drained soil during the vegetative period. Meadows, valleys, forest margins, along streams in the alpine zone. V - from early spring to late autumn.

Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c. Branchlets dark purplish brown to grayish brown, cylindric, initially densely yellow tomentose, glabrous when old.

* 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.

* Sun- and drought-tolerant. Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers.

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

This varient will grow to 8 feet tall. It is a monotypic genus, with this species as its only member. D??m?st?k?/ ) commonly known as heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo , is a suckering shrub in the Barberry family, Berberidaceae .

* The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age. * Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched.

Chinese studies have also indicated that the seeds blockprogesterone synthesis, which could explain this effect. Carnation also exhibits this effect. Note that this effect is only visible on the "head" or flower of the plant.