Shade Tolerant Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Nebraska

Since Butcher's broom tightens blood vessels and capillaries, it is used to treat varicose veins. It has been used to relieve constipation and water retention and improve circulation.

* The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles.

* A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade. * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not...

* Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass.

These trees are capable of producing fruit that is a small, blue or black drupe. * The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained, very strong, rather brittle. The wood works well and is suitable for interior uses such as cabinets, but trees with large straight...

Conservation Plant Characteristics Fraxinus profunda (Bush) Bush pumpkin ash FRPR Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator OBL Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period...

* It is native to the eastern United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, with an outlying northwestern population in southern Michigan.

* Depending on the growing conditions, live oaks vary from the shrubby to large and spreading: typical open-grown trees reach 15 meters (50 feet) in height, but may span nearly 50 meters.

* The acorns provide food for raccoons, White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkeys, squirrels, ducks, Bobwhite Quail, and small birds and rodents. * It will tolerate the wetter sites in association with other oak species but will not live with continuous or prolonged...

Scrub jays prefer burned sites for acorn caching. * Though seed predation may be high, it also provides a means of seed dispersal. It is classified in the red oak section ( Quercus sect.

* It is native to mountains forests of Japan. * A maple in the snake-bark maple group.

Leaves much smaller than those of the American Elm, Fall foliage is yellow except in the southern part of the range where it is evergreen. * Cedar elm is a large, oval-rounded tree growing 50-70 ft.

* This shrub is an important food source for a number of animals, including bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, and grizzly bears. * Grown mainly for its 1/2" white fruits in fall; small pink flowers in terminal clusters; blue-green leaves to 2"; will grow...

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico...

* Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Fruit - raw or cooked. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring.

It grows in dry woodlands and forest edges and can reach 4 – 8 m tall with stems 10 – 25 cm thick with smooth gray bark. An edible oil is obtained from the seed. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels.

* Quercus buckleyi , commonly known as Texas Red Oak or Buckley's oak , is a species of flowering plant in the Fagaceae family. * It is smaller and more likely to be multi-trunked than its close relative, the Shumard Oak .

* 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.

It grows in dry woodlands and forest edges and can reach 4 – 8 m tall with stems 10 – 25 cm thick with smooth gray bark. An edible oil is obtained from the seed. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern...

* Spicebush is a Missouri native deciduous shrub with a broad, rounded habit which typically grows 6-12' (less frequently to 15') high in moist locations in bottomlands, woods, ravines, valleys and along streams.

* Quercus texana , commonly known as Nuttall's Oak , is a fast growing large deciduous Oak tree native to North America from the lower Mississippi river valley from SE Missouri to Southern Louisiana and SE Texas and East through Mississippi to Central...

Like some other southern yellow pines, Virginia Pine lumber case hardens. * There are also some nice cultivated specimens of Pinus virginiana in the Harvard Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.

* Perhaps best when massed in naturalized areas where suckering spread is acceptable. * Fruit is attractive to wildlife. Rich in vitamin C. Also effective in shrub borders, roadside plantings, wet or low areas or as a screen.

* It is a tree of the redwood understory in its native range. * The fruit of this species is about 1 - 1.5cm long:- It is eaten raw or cooked. This dogwood may approach five meters in height at maximum.

It occurs on dry or sandy upland sites from southern New York ( Long Island ) south to central Florida and west to southern Missouri and eastern Texas . * Quercus falcata , commonly known as the Southern Red Oak or Spanish Oak , is a tree in the red oak...