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Echinacea Pallida Photo by H. Zell on Wikimedia Commons Adaptation Pale purple coneflower is adapted to dry and mesic prairies and a variety of soil types. It can stand some acidic soils (pH=4.5) and due to its long tap root can with stand prolonged drought. Establishment Seed of pale purple coneflower can be . . . → Read More: Echinacea Pallida Production Weeds are often a major problem of lucerne. They reduce the quality, yield and useful life of the stand. Early competition from weeds in young lucerne can thin out a lucerne stand. The weakened stand will then be unable to keep out weeds in later years. There is a range of herbicides registered and . . . → Read More: Weed Management in Lucerne Nannyberry Viburnum lentago Contributed by: USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center & the Biota of North America Program Alternate Names: Sheepberry, wild raisin, sweet viburnum, nannyberry. Uses Nannyberry is a shade-tolerant, understory species useful in landscape plantings as shrub borders, taller barriers, hedges, and windbreaks. It produces good seasonal displays of flowers, . . . → Read More: Nannyberry fact sheet Black Huckleberry Photo by julie from Idaho, United States on Wikimedia Commons Botanical Name: Vaccinium membranaceum Contributed By: USDA, NRCS, National Plant Data Center & Oregon Plant Materials Center Alternate Name: Thinleaf huckleberry Uses Ethnobotanic: The nlaka’pamux of British Columbia, the Okanagan-Colville and Nez Perce of eastern Washington, the Plateau Indians of the . . . → Read More: Black Huckleberry Salmonberry Blossom Photo by David McMaster Botanical Name: Rubus spectabilis Contributed By: USDA, NRCS, National Plant Data Center & Oregon Plant Materials Center Uses Ethnobotanical: Salmonberry fruits are edible, but are considered too soft to dry. Both the large, raspberry-like fruit and the young shoots were widely eaten by coastal peoples of British . . . → Read More: Salmonberry |
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