Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Ohio

* An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds are bright red, sometimes used for necklaces, but are said to be poisonous; native to Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.

The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. Both are dried for later use.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be...

Legume species. * Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding clumps. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. Blooms early to mid season.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia...

* Bristly locust is perhaps the best erosion control shrub for steep sloping sites with active erosion. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust . It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing...

It may be hard to kill! * Caragana microphylla is a polymorphic species and in some cases with transitional forms. This species is planted for dune stabilization and for soil and water conservation.

Common names include White Leadtree , Jumbay , and White Popinac . Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . * The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder.

* Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides , though some authors split this into two species (see below).

* The leaves are sometimes used as a substitute for senna as a laxative,though they are much milder in their action. * Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder senna .

* An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds are bright red, sometimes used for necklaces, but are said to be poisonous; native to Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.

* An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites. * Shiny green leaves. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it...

Utahensis ) is a shrub or small tree reaching 3-6 m (rarely to 9 m) tall. It is native to the southwestern United States , in Utah , Nevada , Arizona , western New Mexico , western Colorado , Wyoming , southern Montana , southern Idaho and eastern California...

* The crown is broad and widely spreading. Guanacaste seed pods, however, are completely ignored by native fauna and they accumulate on the forest floor underneath parent trees. Healthy guanacaste trees generate massive, nearly annual crops of seeds.

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * The Cercocarpus betuloides leaves are distinctive in that they have smooth edges from the base to about half way up, then are wavy or toothed to the rounded tip.

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

* The crown is broad and widely spreading. Guanacaste seed pods, however, are completely ignored by native fauna and they accumulate on the forest floor underneath parent trees. Healthy guanacaste trees generate massive, nearly annual crops of seeds.

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA , including some offshore islands, and a few locations in Baja California , Mexico , and always on or near...

The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a sickle -shaped keel. * Perennial wild flower, Flowers in clusters, color purple. Fast growing, showy color. It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height.

* A majestic sturdy tree when mature, flat topped and wide spreading with a horizontal branching habit; likes dry air and full sun; dark green needles; native to Asia Minor. * The Lebanon Cedar is widely planted as an ornamental tree in parks and large...

Also useful for stabilizing embankments. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Blooms on new growth. Can be grown as a hedge. Also tolerates some drought.

* Of irregular habit, roughly conical. * Native to Japan. * Extremely salt tolerant, good for seaside planting and holding beach sand in place. Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques.

* A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until they turn an amber or pink colour. * Ephedra nevadensis ( Nevada ephedra ) is a species of Ephedra native to dry areas of western North America.

It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada , but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the San Gabriel Mountains .

Used for bearings, turnery, cabinet work, ornamental uses etc. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia , Clianthus , and Montigena .Flowering of Kowhai is staggered, from July through to November,...

* It is one of the most elementally Mexican of pines. Sinaloa to Chiapas - and Guatemala in montane, relatively open pine or pine-oak forests at altitudes from 900 to 2500 m. * It is found in Mexico - from S.

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.