Acid Loving Plant Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In Fremont

Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in .

If the prey is too small and escapes, the trap will reopen within 12 hours. * A very popular curiosity plant. The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping.

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas...

* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States .

* It is naturally a wetland tree, and develops a shallow, fibrous root system, unlike many oaks , which have a strong, deep taproot when young. It is confined to acidic soils, and does not tolerate limestone , and grows at low altitudes from sea level...

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color; may expand...

* Easily grown from seed. * An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes rising well above the foliage to 3-4' tall.

* Betula occidentalis ( Water Birch , also known as Red Birch ) is a species of birch native to western North America , in Canada from Yukon east to western Ontario and southwards, and in the United States from eastern Washington east to western North...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and Europe . This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests .

* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States .

A decoction is used internally in the treatment of diarrhoea, malaria etc, and externally in the treatment of indolent sores and chronic skin disease. * The bark is antiseptic, astringent, cathartic and tonic.

* The wood is light, fragrant, easily worked, resists insects damage. Used in construction, ship building etc wherever great strength is required. * It is a genus of one or two species of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress familyCupressaceae.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia .

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* The roughleaf dogwood flowers during the summer months. * These dogwoods can form a dense thicket that is used as a hedge, border or cover for wildlife. * The roughleaf dogwood is used as a buffer strip around parking lots, in the median of highways...

* 1/2-1" yellow-green trumpet-shaped flowers backed by white, pink, or rose sepals, "beautiful for flower effect" (Dirr); dark green simple 4-8" leaves; likes moist acid soil; native to southeast U.S. * In earlier days, malaria and other fevers were treated...

* Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S. * A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets.

* Larch are commonly found in swamps, bogs, and other low-land areas. American Larch or Tamarack considered a superior Larch species, Larix laricina, is a popular bonsai because their trunks grow thick when young and the bright green like leaves turn...

The berries also have a black dot on them. * These open woodland plants grow 40 cm (16 in) to 80 cm (31 in) tall.The leaves that are coarsely toothed with deeply lobed margins. * Seeds In mid to late simmer, the berries turn bright red .

The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. * The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained, very strong, rather brittle. These trees are capable of producing fruit that is a small, blue or black drupe.

* The leaves are used as a tea substitute. * The Psoralea glandulosa, also called wallwa, culen or St. Augustine grass is a perennial plant belonging to the family of Fabaceae . It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South...

* Also commonly called pig squeak because of the noise produced by rubbing a leaf between thumb and finger. Small dark pink flowers in dense panicles appear within or above the foliage on stout stalks to 16" tall in April.

* Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

Near its southern limit, it often shares canopy dominance with Southern Magnolia . Small but very sweet and nutritious, it is sold in local markets in Canada and some parts of America.

* A deciduous Tree growing to 9 m (29ft 6in). It is hardy to zone 6. It prefers moist soil. * A small tree grown for its ornamental red new growth and its red and yellow fall color.