Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Columbus

* 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. * A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike...

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric...

* 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.

Specimens in wetter areas are more tree-like with bigger leaves. If this does not happen, this species will regrow a shoot. Specimens in drier and sandier areas are shrub-like, have rhizomes and smaller leaves than usual.

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish,...

Sap from the cut flowering stems is used as a syrup. * Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. * Agave utahensis is a species of agave known by the common name Utah agave.

Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such as Great Britain, where it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* Bristly locust is perhaps the best erosion control shrub for steep sloping sites with active erosion. Its value for wildlife food is minimal, but is a very attractive shrub when in bloom.

* Succeeds in most fertile soils but they must be perfectly drained and the plant requires a very sunny position. It can be grafted onto Caragana or Laburnum species. Plants are well adapted to maritime situations, growing well on alkaline, sandy and...

Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. Blooms early to mid season. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position.

This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts.

* A deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods. * The plant contains several biologically active compounds. Used as a reclamation species on very poor soils.

* Calia secundiflora is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae , that is native to the southwestern United States ( Texas , New Mexico ) and Mexico ( Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo , Puebla and Queretaro ).

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

* Yellow flowers bloom in spring and summer and produce fruit in pods typically containing one seed. Germination will usually take place within 2 weeks. Leaves alternate on the stem and possess three leaflets.

* The Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. * The Interior Live Oak ( Quercus wislizeni ) is an evergeen oak , highly variable and often shrubby, found in areas of California in the United States .

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.

From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well.

* These aggressive reproductive characteristics might be beneficially exploited in reforestation projects; on the other hand, the plant is considered an invasive species in some places.

* An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia.

* 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...

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast...

Trees from the Mexican highlands achieve a notable stoutness. * It occurs from 300 to 2,500 m (980 to 8,200 ft), in Mexico mainly in highlands at 1,600 m (5,200 ft) and 2,300 m (7,500 ft) altitude.

* 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.

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

* Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides , though some authors split this into two species (see below).