Shade Tolerant Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Cedar Rapids

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock.

* Aruncus, from the Greek aryngos (goat's beard), refers to the showy, finger-like flower clusters, which form feathery masses of all male or all female flowers. * Aruncus dioicus (Walt.) (goat's beard or bride's feathers) is a flowering herbaceous perennial...

Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming. Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme .

Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...

Dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds. * Features a mound of narrow, medium green leaves edged with pure white, with racemes of orchid-like, purple striped flowers on 18" scapes.

* A hot infusion of the bark has been snuffed for treating sinus problems and has been held in the mouth for treating toothache. * This species boasts the largest simple leaf and single flower of any native plant in North America.

* It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens.

Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden.

* The root-bark is anthelmintic, antibacterial, antiperiodic, stomachic and tonic. * A small tree but often a shrub of a few spreading stems. It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency.

Salvia Caradonna reaches 18-24 inches tall, bearing flowers on sturdy stems during the summer months. Plants may become somewhat floppy and open up as the summer progresses, particularly in humid climates.

The very fragrant flowers are used by the Chinese to impart a pleasant aroma to tea, wine and sweet dishes such as lotus seed soup, pastries and steamed pears. Kinmokusei ; also known as Sweet Olive, Tea Olive and Fragrant Olive) is a species of Osmanthus...

The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. * The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12...

The roots and rhizomes have long been used medicinally by Native Americans. * Cohosh comes from an Algonquin word meaning rough in reference to the appearance of plant rhizomes. * Native Americans used black cohosh to treat gynecological and other disorders,...

Dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds. * Features a mound of narrow, medium green leaves edged with pure white, with racemes of orchid-like, purple striped flowers on 18" scapes.

* Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan. The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

It is used in Korea in the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, arthritis and oedema. It is adaptogenic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic. * The root bark contains saponins, acanthosides, cardiac glycosides and polysaccharides.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

Flowers (to 1.5" long) are in trusses of 5-9 flowers each and have a pleasant, clove-like fragrance. Pink flowers appear in early spring (April-May in St. Louis) before or at the time of the emergence of the foliage.

* The fruit is edible raw. * Native to southeastern U.S.; lavender-pink or bluish flowers from mid- to late summer, followed by bright purple, violet, or magenta fruits in great profusion.

* The whole plant, but especially the root, is analgesic, antirheumatic, galactogogue and rubefacient.The plant was often used medicinally by North American Indian tribes, though modern users should be aware of the plants potential toxicity.

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.

* Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. * 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.

Prefers a well-drained loamy soil. * Euonymus americanus is commonly referred to as Strawberry Bush , Bursting Hearts or John Baptiste - Percival. Once the seeds have ripened in mid-autumn the red capsules burst open, scattering the orange seeds up to...

Pick a few stems to bring inside for the vase, too! Beautyberry is a shrub prized for its showy fruit, but this one also sports beautiful purple foliage, all season long. With an upright growth habit, ‘Pearl Glam' dazzles with its pink flowers but saves...

* Dirr describes this as a really beautiful plant. * Features cup-shaped, sweetly fragrant (lemony), 9-12 petaled, creamy white, waxy flowers (2-3" diameter) which appear in mid-spring and sometimes continue sporadically throughout the summer.

* A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting. * Native to the U.S. Southwest, where it is sometimes used as a street or shade tree; 3-5 leaflets per leaf; dark gray scaly ridged bark; velvety young shoots, downy leaves.

This mixture provides a wide range of colors that appear in early spring, filling the air with their delightful wallflower fragrance. Plants will over-summer, then as cool weather arrives in fall, produce an abundance of flowers through winter and into...