Shade Tolerant Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Chicago

Since Butcher's broom tightens blood vessels and capillaries, it is used to treat varicose veins. * Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms. The seed germinates better if it is given a period of cold stratification.

It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, in late summer bearing conspicuous brilliant red inedible fruits superficially resembling cherries. * Alpine Honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena L.

The leaves are entire, without teeth except one apical awn (rarely with a few teeth near apex), mostly elliptical or narrowly ovate, and 1.2 to 4.7 inches (3cm to 12cm) long by 0.4 to 1.6 inches (1cm to 4cm) wide.

With age, it develops deep furrows, ridges, and a thickness of about 8 to 9% of bole or branch diameter . Scrub jays cache about 5,000 acorns each year over an average home range of about 6.2 acres (2.5 ha), effectively seedling at a rate of 800 acorns...

It has been introduced in the US (New England). Cordata; varies a good deal, and several cultivars are grown; often used in Europe, where it is native, but not common in the U.S. * Lime flowers are a popular domestic remedy for a number of ailments, especially...

The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood. * The wood of Nyssa sylvatica is heavy, hard, cross-grained, and difficult to split, especially after drying.

* The acorns usually mature around fall. * One of the largest southwestern oaks, this handsome tree reaches its greatest size in canyons and other moist sites. * It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree.

* Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern (Polystichum munitum), coastal woodfern (Dryopteris arguta), California snowberry (Symphoricarpos mollis), common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), and thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus).

With age, it develops deep furrows, ridges, and a thickness of about 8 to 9% of bole or branch diameter . Scrub jays cache about 5,000 acorns each year over an average home range of about 6.2 acres (2.5 ha), effectively seedling at a rate of 800 acorns...

Alba, it is used for furniture, cabinet making, interior finishes, fence posts and fuel. * The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak.

Americana, though it is usually sold under that name. * Fraxinus pennsylvanica ( Green Ash or Red Ash ) is a species of ash native to eastern and central North America , from Nova Scotia west to southeastern Alberta and eastern Colorado , south to northern...

Quercus , native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada . * The Quercus macrocarpa or Bur Oak , sometimes spelled Burr Oak , is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect.

However, the swamp chestnut oak is a larger tree which differs in preferred habitat, and the bark does not have the distinctive deep, rugged ridging of the chestnut oak, being thinner, scaly, and paler gray.

Cerifera will also provide habitat for the Northern Bobwhite Quail. As of 1991, no known fire has killed this plant's roots. Three consecutive years of shoot destruction may kill all plants affected.

Carpinifolia, but a graceful tree nonetheless; slow-growing; bark gray brown, in narrow strips; yields a very hard wood; sometimes used as a street and ornamental tree; hoplike fruit clusters; native to eastern U.S. * Wood - close-grained, very hard,...

* It is largely confined to very infertile , excessively well-drained, sandy habitats where competition from larger-growing species is minimized by the harsh growing conditions, as in the Florida scrub .

* This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties. * Used as a rootstock for P.

* Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores. * The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread.

The wood is also used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood, and firewood. * The wood of Nyssa sylvatica is heavy, hard, cross-grained, and difficult to split, especially after drying.

It has been introduced in the US (New England). Cordata; varies a good deal, and several cultivars are grown; often used in Europe, where it is native, but not common in the U.S. * Lime flowers are a popular domestic remedy for a number of ailments, especially...

* Quercus macrocarpa is a large deciduous tree growing up to 30 m (100 ft), rarely 40 m (130 ft), in height, and is one of the most massive oaks with a trunk diameter of up to 3 m (10 ft).

Bark is "light brown to gray" in color and may be smooth or "warty and roughened". * Grows as a shrub or small tree; light gray stems, shiny dark green leaves, fall color yellow; orange to scarlet quarter-inch fruits persisting until spring; native to...

It is native from New York to Nebraska south to Mexico and Florida. In Missouri, it is typically found along woodland streams, open wooded hillsides, upland ridges, thickets and glades primarily in limestone areas south of the Missouri River and throughout...

* When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south.

* In Neotropical gardens and parks, their nectar is popular with many hummingbirds, such as the black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), the black jacobin (Florisuga fusca), or the gilded hummingbird(Hylocharis chrysura).

* Extremely slow growing, 4' in 16 years, extremely long lived, to thousands of years--is yours a patient and stationary family?; shrubby, has great character even when young; blue-green foliage, needles to 1 1/2"; needs protection from dry wind in cold...

* Native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion control. * Alopecurus arundinaceus ( Creeping meadow foxtail , Creeping foxtail ) is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family...