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Citronella grass: repels insects, may deter cats [5] Clovers: repel aphids and wireworms [3] Common lantana: repels mosquitoes [1] Coriander: repels aphids, Colorado potato beetle, and spider mites [3] Cosmos: repel the corn earworm: Crown imperial: repel rabbits, mice, moles, voles and ground squirrels [6] Dahlias: repel nematodes [2] Dill
A plant sold under the name "Coleus canina" or "scaredy cat plant" is supposed to scare off cats and dogs. An attempt to register " Coleus canina " to receive plant variety protection failed as it was considered to be only a clone of Coleus comosus (synonym Plectranthus ornatus ).
It has rhizomes which survive fire that clears dead and dying plant matter from the surface of the ground. The plant thrives with periodic burns and is often the first plant to sprout in a scorched area. [This paragraph needs citation(s)] Deer and elk eat the flowers and other parts of the plant. [18] Bears eat the softer leaf bases. [6]
Viburnum lesquereuxii leaf with insect damage; Dakota Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Ellsworth County, Kansas. Scale bar is 10 mm. Knowledge of herbivory in geological time comes from three sources: fossilized plants, which may preserve evidence of defense (such as spines) or herbivory-related damage; the observation of plant debris in fossilised animal feces; and the structure of herbivore mouthparts.
Pineland three-awn (A. stricta) flowers. Aristida is a very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family. [4] [5] Aristida is distinguished by having three awns (bristles) on each lemma of each floret. [6] The genus includes about 300 species found worldwide, often in arid warm regions.
The leaf is hairless and when crushed gives off a lemon-ginger scent [3] like other grasses in the genus Cymbopogon. The inflorescence of the plant, or the collections of flowers , are arranged on a 10–45 cm (3.9–17.7 in) long stem with clusters of short, nearly hairless branches which bend downwards when mature, giving the inflorescence a ...
In this video, we see a beautiful bobcat dropping by a birdbath at the Dogwood Canyon Audubon center southwest of Dallas, Texas. The animal looks like a giant beast in the clip, but don’t worry ...
Eriophorum angustifolium, commonly known as common cottongrass or common cottonsedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.Native to North America, North Asia, and Europe, it grows on peat or acidic soils, in open wetland, heath or moorland.