Native Plants Pennsylvania Native Flowering Shrubs for Your Garden Pennsylvania is home to many beautiful native flowering shrubs. Shrubs are an excellent way to add color and interest to your garden and are relatively 10 Min Reading Native Plants Native Plants of Maine for Landscaping Native plants...
Illustration of Pennsylvania smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum) from An Urban Field Guide to the Plants in Your Path After a brief introduction, Herskovits profiles fifteen common urban weeds. Each entry includes an illustration of the plant, a short list of its “Urban Survival Techniques,” a...
All of these plants are fast-growing, thereby making them suitable for use in phytostabilization strategies. Furthermore, they are all easy to grow and propagate and are generally self-sustaining. All six plants showed accumulation factors below 1, thus revealing them as pseudomethallophytes and ...
"Arborescens" means tree-like and that's certainly the case here, as plants in the wild may grow 20 feet tall. In your garden, though, expect half of that. Native to the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Alabama, it bears intensely sweet white blossoms with prominent red stamens. It's ...
*Rhoads, Ann Fowler and Timothy A. Block. 2000. The Plants of Pennsylvania, And Illustrated Manual. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is a beautifully illustrated and detailed manual to the plants of Pennsylvania, many of which occur in New York ...
Abstract Native landscaping has been proposed as a means of increasing native bird diversity and abundance in urban landscapes. However residents’ preferences for vegetation are such that exotic plants are often preferred over natives. We investigated the extent to which native birds foraged in three...
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plants Database was used as a reference for current plant taxonomy and scientific names. To ease the transition to the new names, this guide contains entries for both new and old names. The listing for a new name includes the old name in parentheses, and ...
We had relocated to Pennsylvania on faith in what I do as an artist to start a new life. We named our daughter Imani, which means faith with Arabic and Swahili origins in East Africa, as a testament to that move. This year Imani returned from Alaska, another faith move – there and ...
byPennsylvania State University Pollen and tree survey map. Credit: Marc Abrams, Penn State Native Americans' use of fire to manage vegetation in what is now the Eastern United States was more profound than previously believed, according to a Penn State researcher who determined that forest composi...
It concerns William Penn's (of Pennsylvania fame) dealings with the Delaware tribe of Indians. "Penn realized, unlike many Americans of the 19th century, the complex differences between various tribes-- and the benefits of distinguishing between them." - Illustrated - From Tuomi J. Forrest - ...