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Illustration of a Longleaf Pine tree.
Pinus palustris (Longleaf Pine)
A stylized red hibiscus flower with an orange style protruding from the center of the flower. The hibiscus is the state flower of Hawaii.
Hibiscus Flower
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata)
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata) occupies…
An image depicts the planting of cover crops, which grow during the winter season to stabilize the soil until the spring growing season.
Cover Crops as a Key Watershed Stewardship…
Pickleweed is an invasive or introduced plant in Hawaii. It has succulent, brilliant green leaves and is common in salt marshes and tidal shorelines. It grows slowly in soils with high salt concentrations and areas with seawater overwash where it suffers little competition from other plants. The species manages salts by sequestering them in cell vacuoles and eventually shedding the leaves.
Batis maritima (Pickleweed)
Emergent wetland species are planted in a buoyant matrix that floats at the water surface. The roots of these plants grow through the matrix and take up the nutrients they need to grow directly from the water, potentially decreasing nutrient concentrations.
Floating Wetlands Structure and Impact
Gutters and downspouts installed onto buildings direct rainwater from roofs to rain gardens. Plants with deep root systems encourage stormwater infiltration and absorbs excess nutrient runoff.
Multiple Benefits of Rain Gardens
A Maryland native shrub, the surrounding winter foliage of this Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) shrub provided a male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) with a protected perch.
Northern cardinal
A Maryland native shrub, the surrounding winter foliage of this Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) shrub provided a male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) with a protected perch.
Northern cardinal
Illustration for total nitrogen
Total nitrogen (TN)
Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) growing in Hidden Valley of Joshua Tree National Park.
Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia), endemic to the Southwestern United States, near Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree National Park.
Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia)
Illustration of an Ontario Balsam Poplar.
Populus balsamifera (Balsam poplar)
Illustration of a forestry worker, cutting down a tree with a chain saw.
Forestry worker
Perennial native plants like the bee balm (Monarda didyma) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The red color attracts hummingbirds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Perennial native plants like coneflowers (Echinecea) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They attract birds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Coneflowers (Echinecea) and bee
Black oak (Quercus velutina) seedling that has emerged on its own.
Black oak (Quercus velutina) volunteer
Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora) in farm field on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora) closeup
Corn crop growing in a field on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA.
Corn crop closeup
Dying elm due to disease, on an Eastern Shore Maryland property.
Diseased elm
Planted Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) trees lining a driveway, in Maryland.
Driveway lined with Red Cedar (Juniperus…
Illustration of a flower pot, or seedlings.
Flower pot
Chesapeake Watershed Forester planting a loblolly pine seedling on Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Forester planting a tree
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