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The plant grows 1 to 2 feet (0.3 to 0.6 m) tall. The hairless leaves are compound, divided into a number of leaflets. [3] [8] The inflorescence is a raceme of white, pink, or purple flowers. The fruit is a legume pod containing kidney-shaped seeds. [3] Honeybees pollinate the flowers. [9]
In 2012 the USDA updated their plant hardiness map based on 1976–2005 weather data, using a longer period of data to smooth out year-to-year weather fluctuations. [7] Two new zones (12 and 13) were added to better define and improve information sharing on tropical and semitropical plants, they also appear on the maps of Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Lespedeza capitata is a species of flowering plant in the Fabaceae, or legume family, and is known by the common name roundhead bushclover, or roundhead lespedeza. [2] It is native to eastern North America, including eastern Canada and the eastern half of the United States.
Gold Medal Plant Award Program sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society this program recognizes "trees, shrubs, and woody vines of outstanding merit" and are recommended for USDA Zones 5-7 and is a good place to look when considering adding shrubs and trees to the home garden.
Thinopyrum intermedium, known commonly as intermediate wheatgrass, [1] is a sod-forming perennial grass in the Triticeae tribe of Pooideae native to Europe and Western Asia. [2] It is part of a group of plants commonly called wheatgrasses because of the similarity of their seed heads or ears to common wheat.
The duties of this office included world-wide plant expeditions, crop testing (to ensure no diseases or invasive pests were introduced), propagation, and distribution. The office oversaw several testing gardens, including the USDA Plant Introduction Garden in Miami Florida [2] and the National Seed Distribution program. [2]
The USDA also refers to it as the Miami Station. [1] The introduction of economically useful plants into the US is a three-step process: (1) explorers find the plants in foreign countries; (2) the plants are sent back to a USDA introduction garden where they are evaluated; (3) successful plants are distributed to farmers and nurserymen.
Vaccinium uliginosum is a small deciduous shrub growing to 10–75 centimetres (4– 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall, rarely 1 metre (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall, with brown stems (unlike the green stems of the closely related bilberry).
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