Content tagged with "Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines"

Starting more than a century ago, this nonnative rose was planted across America--for many good reasons--but it has proven to be invasive, and now the goal is to stop its spread.

A very small shrub of our native prairies and other open sites, New Jersey tea was used by patriotic American colonists as a substitute for black tea imported from England during the Revolutionary War.

Of the three species of catalpas in our state, northern catalpa is the only one native to Missouri (specifically, the Bootheel region). It has been planted widely, though, in town and country, and has naturalized in many places. A popular ornamental and shade tree with pretty, orchidlike flowers and long, beanlike fruit.

The name of this tree honors Thomas Nuttall, a biologist who traveled extensively in North America, including the western United States up the Missouri only five years after Lewis and Clark's trip. Because most of Lewis and Clark's biological specimens were lost, Nuttall collected many plants that were completely new to science. Nuttall also wrote one of the first complete bird manuals of North America.