Nitrogen Fixing Plant Honey Bee Food For Sale In Illinois

It is resistant to common bean mosaic virus and New York 15 virus. Flowering is reduced once the seeds begin to form inside the pods. * The green pods are commonly used as a vegetable, they have a mild flavour and should only be cooked for a short time.

Its typical habitat is rough grassy places, broad-leaved woodland, forest margins, hedgerows and banks. * Lathyrus tuberosus is a perennial plant with edible tubers 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long attached to its roots.

* Senna alata is an important medicinal tree, as well as an ornamental flowering plant in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. * It also known as emperor's candlesticks, candle bush, candelabra bush, Christmas candles, empress candle plant, ringworm shrub,...

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.

* The flowers and leaves are diaphoretic, diuretic and rubefacient. * This ground clematis can be trained to climb, but is usually left alone to crawl along the ground as the common name suggests.

The flowers are dark pink with a paler base, 12–15 mm long, produced in a dense inflorescence. For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop. It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape...

* 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental; native from southeast Canada to Georgia and Tennessee, in moist woods especially...

It is also suitable for making into hay. It grows rapidly in spring, and yields an abundant crop of green food, particularly palatable to live stock. The flowers are produced throughout the spring and summer, rich red or crimson, congested on an elongated...

The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. * Syringa komarowii is a species of lilac native to central China, commonly...

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

* The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August.

* 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.

* This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants will survive. * Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m.

Prefers a moist soil. * This is an annual herb which grows erect to a maximum height near 100 centimeters. The flowers are a rich source of nectar and is occasionally grown commercially as a crop for bees.

* A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand.

* A flowering, fruit-producing tree, member of the rose family; flowers resemble those of hawthorn, white or light pink; 1 1/2"; 1" fruits, hard and brownish, inedible until aged or frosted, used in jellies; old trees may be thorny; of rounded habit;...

* Leaves to 5" long, heart-shaped, dark green; yellowish-white flowers in drooping clusters; of upright, rounded habit, like T. The common name Large-leaved Linden is in standard use throughout the English-speaking world except in Britain, where it has...

They have a sweetish-acid taste, and are a nice addition to the salad bowl. * The leaves appear shortly after the first flowers emerge. * This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width.

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

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.

Under these conditions, massive, extended, horizontal limbs emerge low on the boles, forming giant, hemispherical, widely spreading crowns. * Guanacaste flowers are heavily visited by bees - insects that probably are responsible for pollination as well.

* New Jersey tea is a compact, dense, rounded shrub which typically grows 2-3' tall (less frequently to 4'). It is native to Missouri where it occurs in prairies, glades, dry open woods and thickets throughout the state (Steyermark).

This means that when used on the skin it will not remove the natural body oils, but nor will it remove engine oil etc. It grows up to 4 meters tall but generally remains under three, and forms colonies of individuals which tangle together to form nearly...

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.

It was introduced to American colonists by Indians who used the plant for breaking fevers by means of heavy sweating. The plant, however, should be used with some caution since large doses are laxative and emetic and the plant might contain potentially...