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* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. * The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb.

* It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south in southern Greece, and Nordmann Fir to the east in northern Turkey.

Common names include yellow iris and yellow flag . A delicately scented essential oil, obtained from the roots, has been used to adulterate the oil of Acorus calamus. Its specific epithet , meaning "false acorus," refers to the similarity of its leaves...

It prefers rich humid soils. * Common Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae , which grows in the prairies of Eurasia. It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and...

* This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000 BC. * Amaranthus cruentus is a common flowering plant species that yields the nutritious staple amaranth grain .

* At the north end of its range, it intergrades and hybridises with pitch pine (P. This pine often has a crooked growth pattern and an irregular top and attains the height of 15-20 m, occasionally up to 30 m.

* Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old World and is a perennial .

Prefers a peaty or well-drained sandy loam. The flowers are 2.5-3 cm (1 in) diameter, white, pink or pale purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots. The leaves are 9-19 cm (3-8 in ) long and 2-4 cm (0.75-1.5 in) broad.

* For the brightest winter bark, young shoots are encouraged by cutting to the ground some older stems at the end of the winter, before leaves are open. As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall (autumn)...

This plant is also cultivated in many European and American gardens. * Acanthus balcanicus, is an endemic herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Acanthus, native to the Balkan peninsula, up to Dalmatia.

* A rare and botanically interesting,medium-sized to large, suckering shrub, occasionally a small tree. This is one of the lightest known woods, it weighs about 12½lb per cubic foot, is lighter than cork and is used for floats etc.

It requires full sun. The base of the grass grows along the ground and may root at several places. These are perennial rhizomatous grasses found in wet areas in temperate regions worldwide.

* 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.

It grows on wet sites on the coastal plain at altitudes from sea level up to 50 m, more rarely in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains up to 460 m altitude. Wood found buried in swamps for hundreds of years is perfectly sound and not water-logged.

* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. * The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb.

* A gray-branched shrub with white berries; flowers in late spring; native to central North America from Ontario to Louisiana and Texas. It is uncommon in the wild, and is mostly found around forest borders.

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added...

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant . * 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...

It is in flower in August, and the seeds ripen in October. * A decidious Shrub growing to 2 m (6ft 7in). * They are popularly grown in gardens and parks.

* Fraxinus nigra ( Black Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus (ash) native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States , from western Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba , and south to Illinois and northern Virginia.

The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. Well known and especially interesting for children.

* A fine blue infusion is obtained from the flowers and this can be used as a litmus substitute to test for acids and alkalis. Some tribes even used to chew the root and then hold rattlesnakes with their teeth and were not bitten so long as the scent...

* 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 .

However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range. * Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions and Afghanistan to China .

* Persea palustris , commonly known as the swampbay , is a tree native to eastern North America, from Texas eastwards to Florida and then extending north to Delaware, mostly on the Gulf Coastal Plain and Atlantic Coastal Plain but extending into the Piedmont...

* Fevertree or pinckneya is a large, open shrub or small tree, growing 10-30 ft. Flowers are yellowish-green and tubular with five, reflexed lobes. Large, coarse, rich-green leaves are concentrated at branch ends.

Leaves are grasslike but broad. Foliage turns yellow-brown in fall. * Scirpus atrovirens, known as common bulrush, is a grass-like, rhizomatous marginal aquatic perennial that is native to moist meadows, bogs, stream/river/lake margins, sloughs, roadside...