Urban Tolerant Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Cedar Rapids

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

* Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. It is generally yellow or yellow-green with bulbous yellow flowers. The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed.

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites, including some of the most...

It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600 m. * Fraxinus quadrangulata ( Blue Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native primarily to the Midwestern...

In the Mexican part of the Sonoran Desert, it is still being planted and irrigated for livestock grazing. * It was introduced in the 1930s into Arizona, United States, to provide grazing.

* Extremely salt tolerant, good for seaside planting and holding beach sand in place. * Because of its resistance to pollution and salt, it is a popular horticultural tree. Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start...

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. It is native to Europe and western Asia . * Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant...

* Its typical habitat is moist shaded woodland, growing in accumulated humus. The flowers are bright yellow 3.5-5 cm across, starting out bowl-shaped, then flattening out with age.

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

They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

* Due to the tree of heaven's weedy habit, landowners and other organisations often resort to various methods of control in order to keep its populations in check. * All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting...

This varient will grow to 3 feet tall. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems,...

* Eleutherococcus senticosus (formerly Acanthopanax senticosus ) is a species of small, woody shrub in the family Araliaceae native to Northeastern Asia . * Research has shown that it stimulates resistance to stress and so it is now widely used as a tonic...

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

They germinate right away and will mark the row. * The tops are loaded with vitamin A and the roots with Vitamin C. * The usually deep-red roots of garden beet are eaten boiled either as a cooked vegetable, or cold as a salad after cooking and adding...

* A good border plant with white or pinkish flowers on a vertical stalk; a long-lived plant, makes a substantial clump in the garden. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam.

* Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.

* Upright stems topped by 1/2-1" flowers in a branched flower head, white, green, or yellowish; grows in wet, grassy subalpine meadows and open woods; flowers in June or July; attractive pleated leaves, to 1' long, 6" wide; native from northern Europe...

Germination usually takes place in 1 - 6 months at 15°c. * Striking in the woodland garden; likes woodland soil; red berries in fall. * he plant contains calcium oxalate crystals in all parts, and because of this consumption of the raw plant material...

It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years. * A very tolerant plant, succeeding in the salt laden air and strong winds of the coast as well as in the sulphur polluted...

* Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. Branchlets dark purplish brown to grayish brown, cylindric, initially densely yellow tomentose, glabrous when old.

Dormancy is shorter in cooler climates. * A tuberous herb with vine like leaves. * Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade. * The plant is dormant during the summer and grows during the cooler half of the year.

* 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.

* 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...

Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed...

* Sapindus mukorrossi, known as the ritha or reetha tree in Nepal, is a deciduous tree that is grown in the lower foothills and midhills of the Himalayans, up to altitudes of 4000 feet.

* Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative remedy. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens.