Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Simi Valley

Both are dried for later use. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action. A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. The root is cardiac and febrifuge.

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.

* A yellow dye is obtained from the wood. * 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...

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.

* Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding clumps. Legume species. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.

Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. * class: Equisetopsida C. Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Genus: !Amorpha L. Species: !Amorpha georgiana Wilbur * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North...

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. * Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m.

* Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions. * It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade.

* Perennial wild flower, Flowers in clusters, color purple. It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where it grows mostly in mountain habitat. The fruit is a silky-hairy legume pod up to 5 centimeters long containing...

* Appealing silvery-green leaves; small but fragrant flowers; likes sun; a tough plant, doesn't mind drought, or poor soil, very salt-tolerant; native over a wide swathe of southern Europe east to the Himalayas.

* Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow . It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland .

At about 10–15 years of age the stem stops growing and produces a first flower spike with white, lily-like perfumed flowers, followed by coral berries. The specimen called "El Drago Milenario" (the thousand-year-old dragon) growing at Icod de los Vinos...

The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially when crushed.

An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. * The plant contains several biologically active compounds.

* Gleditsia aquatica, commonly called water locust, after its habitat of river swamps and slough margins. Wood - heavy, very hard, strong, durable in contact with the soil, coarse-grained.

The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings. * Yellow Trumpetbush is an attractive plant that is cultivated as an ornamental . It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates.

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. * This species of pearlbush is an early-blooming, upright deciduous shrub that is native to Manchuria and Korea.

These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip. * The leaves appear shortly after the first flowers emerge. * The flowers can be eaten raw.

* Widely employed medicinally by native North American Indians who mainly used the bark to treat a wide range of complaints. * An infusion of the bark has been used in the treatment of many complaints such as headaches, rheumatic pains, internal injuries...

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

* Turpentine consists of an average of 20% of the oleo-resin. * It is a popular ornamental tree , extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas such as southern California.

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.

* Mostly identical to the species, which see, but with white flowers.

Branchlets glabrous; buds ovoid, slightly pubescent. * Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. * Open forests, slopes, meadows, stream sides. S Gansu (Min Xian, Xigu), E Qinghai (Haiyan Xian, Xining Shi), E Xizang (Sog Xian) [Kazakhstan, Russia (Siberia); SE Europe (Bosnia,...

It requires ample sunlight and well-drained soils. * It requires almost no attention and spreads itself very easily. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane.

* It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . It grows between 1300-3250 m.

Group as a shrub to maximize effect of the spring bloom. It flowers in late spring, bearing panicles of yellow pea-like flowers. * Small specimen tree or shrub for location around residential homes.