Drought Tolerant Plant Seeds For Sale In District Of Columbia

* 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...

* This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

* The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures. A lupane acid extracted from the thorns showed in vitro anti-HIV activity. * It is one of the alleged "50 fundamental herbs" used in traditional Chinese...

* A handsome species, one of the rarest in cultivation (rare even in its own Yalung R.valley) * A small, 8-30' tree/shrub.

* With needles 4-6", stiffer and darker green than the typical species. * It is widely planted for timber, both in its native area (it is the most important tree in forestry in Turkey) and elsewhere in the Mediterranean region east to Pakistan.

* Cupressus funebris is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened shoots.

* Triadica sebifera , also referred to as Sapium sebiferum , is commonly known as the Chinese tallow tree , Florida aspen and Gray Popcorn Tree . In these regions, the waxy coating of the seeds is used for candle and soap making, and the leaves are used...

* The leaves are cooked and used as greens. * 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 water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better selection for midwestern climates than the species because of its better cold tolerance (species is hardy to USDA Zone 6, but var.

* This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

* This small tree or shrub is well adapted to harsh conditions. * It has lovely red fall color. * Will grow on alkaline soils while withstanding climatic extremes; hot, cold and dry!

* It is found on the Black Hills and on foothills and mid-height peaks of the northern, central and southern Rocky Mountains. * Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit.

* The "blue" refers to a substance secreted by the inner bark when exposed to air, not to the leaves, which are dark green, pale yellow in fall, or to the bark, which is gray, platelike, and sometimes shaggy; tolerant of drought and lime, perhaps a good...

* The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs. * Cupressus forbesii, now reclassified by some as Hesperocyparis forbesii, and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress,...

* A conifer of narrow conical form with green, gray-green, or blue-green foliage; shiny reddish brown bark exfoliates in scales; likes heat, drought, and full sun; best in dry western regions.

* Pinus longaeva , the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine , is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States . * One member of this species, known as Methuselah , is thought to be the oldest living non-clonal organism...

* The burnt green herb yields culinary ashes high in minerals and these are used by the Hopi Indians to enhance the colour of blue corn products. * It is most readily identified by its fruits, which have four wings at roughly 90 degree angles and are...

* Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae...

It is usually found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests, at altitudes of 900-2000 m. * Cupressus bakeri , the Modoc Cypress , Siskiyou Cypress or Baker Cypress , is a species of cypress native to the United States , in a restricted area...

It acts upon the electrical conductivity of the heart, slowing and regulating the transmission of the impulses. Flowering occurs after 50-80 growing degree days . * It is the hardiest species of broom, tolerating temperatures down to about -25°C.

Brachyptera (not published). The 'South Rockies' group includes populations formerly assigned to Pinus brachyptera Engelmann (1848) from Arizona and New Mexico. Ponderosa subsp. In the far south of those states, it is replaced by Pinus arizonica (q.v.).

* The Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) is a species in the genus Pinus , family Pinaceae , native and endemic to the outer Canary Islands ( Gran Canaria , Tenerife , Hierro and La Palma ) in the Atlantic Ocean .

* Silvery shrub with fragrant foliage; native to western United States; useful for making cowboy movies!! The vernacular name "sagebrush" is also used for several related members of the genus Artemisia , such as California Sagebrush ( Artemisia californica...

* Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes a golden yellow in fall.

* Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae...