Urban Tolerant Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Virginia

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

The orange fruit has a mealy texture with an acid taste and a slight bitterness but is fairly nice raw. It ripens fairly late, specimens seen at the end of October 1998 were not quite fully ripe.

They are usually multi-stemmed with an open and loosely rounded crown. * Bark dark red-brown, peeling in strips. * In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare towards the bottom, but with dense foliage on the upper...

* Parthenocissus tricuspidata is a flowering plant in the grape family ( Vitaceae ) native to eastern Asia in Japan , Korea , and northern and eastern China . * Resembles Virginia Creeper except that 5" leaf is 3-lobed and shinier.

* This elm-like tree can tolerate drought, wind and floods and is a very tough species especially good for the Midwestern USA. The grayish bark is covered with corky warts and ridges.

* 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.

* White flowers, tasty black berries; substantial arching canes; can spread rapidly in good soil; may stay as low as 2' in dry soil; native from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Missouri.

* Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small white berries which form after the flowers have dropped. * Many species of birds feed on the fruits.

* The Interior Live Oak ( Quercus wislizeni ) is an evergeen oak , highly variable and often shrubby, found in areas of California in the United States . It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada...

* White flowers, tasty black berries; substantial arching canes; can spread rapidly in good soil; may stay as low as 2' in dry soil; native from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Missouri.

It grows naturally in wetlands, near flowing bodies of water, sand dunes , fields, hillsides, pine barrens , and in both needleleaf and mixed-broadleaf forests. This is most rapid in the first season after a fire.

* Sorbus commixta ( Japanese Rowan ) is a species of rowan native to Japan , the far east of Russia on Sakhalin , and in Korea on the island of Ulleungdo . * White flowers in May in clusters to 3" across; bright orangey-red fruit in late summer, 1/3"...

* Shiny green leaves. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.

* 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 tree inhabits wooded bottomlands, the prairie border, and the midwest savanna understorey. It can be used as a hedge. * Crataegus mollis , known as Downy Hawthorn or Red Hawthorn , occurs in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota east...

Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes. Grow the seedlings on in the pot in light shade in the greenhouse for their first growing season, giving occasional liquid feeds to ensure they do not suffer...

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.

* This species is closely related to C. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to shallow chalk. It is used for making tools.

* Native to temperate forests, thickets; 400-2600 m. * The nuts are edible. But little is known as an ornamental. * In culture, since 1882. * Common in mixed and coniferous forests as undergrowth , sometimes, especially in the burned areas and clearings...

* The English name refers to the species' occurrence in the lands of the Apache Native Americans, while the scientific name commemorates the pioneering American botanist George Engelmann who discovered the species in 1848.

* A small deciduous tree with coarse ascending branches and a slender, sometimes bent or leaning trunk. Extremely hardy and fond of wet areas and sites with poor drainage; native to central and northeastern U.S. * Logs of wood can be beaten with mauls...

It is obtained by making wounds in the bark during spring. * The sap has a sweet taste. * Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy. * It is now commonly planted as an ornamental tree across the British Isles and some parts of western...

Cercidium floridum), is a species of palo verde native to the Sonoran Deserts in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. In 1966, it was also named the "city tree" of South Miami, Florida.

The trees grow on saline soils that do not allow for other trees. Scattered stands of the trees have been cut down for firewood . * Prosopis tamarugo , commonly known as the Tamarugo , is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae .

* Picea engelmannii ( Engelmann Spruce ) is a species of spruce native to western North America , from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta , southwest to northern California and southeast to Arizona and New Mexico ; there are also two isolated...

* Carolina buckthorn is a deciduous shrub or small tree that typically grows to 10-15' (infrequently to 30') tall. It is native from New York to Nebraska south to Mexico and Florida.