A pint of blood in America sells to hospitals for $180 to $300, depending on the market, and expired blood often is sold to research laboratories, said Ben Bowman, chief executive of General Blood, the blood broker engaged in a legal tussle with Oklahoma City-based OBI.
This evergreen plant grows 2 to 3 feet tall producing stemless foliage and purple flowers that appear near the soil. Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is a hardy fern growing in USDA zones 3 through 9. This 1- to 3-foot-tall evergreen thrives in full or partial shade and is deer- and rabbit-resistant.
For example Cotton grass, sedge, mosses, lichens, arctic dryads, arctic birches, and arctic poppies all thrive in the tundra Plants are dark in color---some are even red---this helps them absorb solar heat like Arctic willow.