Nitrogen Fixing Plant Flowering Shrub For Sale In Denver

* Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae ( legumes ), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete .

These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip. The flower buds are pickled and used as a condiment. * This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width.

The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimeters long. The flowers are a very good source, when used as a body soap they leave behind a pleasant perfume on the skin.

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. * Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m.

* It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States. * Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.

Fast growing, showy color. * Perennial wild flower, Flowers in clusters, color purple. The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a sickle -shaped keel. It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where...

The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimeters long. The flowers are a very good source, when used as a body soap they leave behind a pleasant perfume on the skin.

* This is a deciduous spiny shrub sprawling to a few meters in maximum width and up to three meters tall. It is native to Russia and southern Asia, but it can be found on other continents where it is an introduced species.

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

* It tends to grow on dry sandy sites, and is associated with pine stands. * A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade.

* Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. Montanus often remains under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height because of browsing by elk and deer, but can reach 20 feet (6.1 m).

Its value for wildlife food is minimal, but is a very attractive shrub when in bloom. It should not be used for residential plantings, or anywhere that formal landscaping is desired.

* Foliage, deciduous, is fragrant when crushed, and has been used medicinally; tiny fruits; branches once used in England to flavor "gale beer"; native to wet peaty areas in cold northern regions around the world.

* It tends to grow on dry sandy sites, and is associated with pine stands. * A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade.

Requires an acid to neutral soil. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. Grows well in a poor sandy soil.

Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in lowering blood cholesterol levels. An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease.

* Acacia dealbata is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in warm temperate regions of the world, and is naturalised in some areas. * The extensiveroot system of this plant helps to prevent soil erosion.

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.

Good background plant. Group as a shrub to maximize effect of the spring bloom. Succeeds in cold exposed situations and tolerates industrial pollution. It flowers in late spring, bearing panicles of yellow pea-like flowers.

* Bright green stems in winter, bright yellow 1 1/2" flowers in spring, bright green leaves in summer; flowers in full shade, although it gets sloppy and gangly if not tended to, at least in the U.S. North; does well in the South; native to central and...

Capsule obovate-elliptic, ovate, to oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5(-2) cm, smooth. Panicles erect, lateral, congested or lax, 4-16(-20) × 3-8(-10) cm. Branchlets glabrous, puberulent, or pubescent.

* Plants are sometimes grown as a hedge. * An evergreen shrub with dark green leaves, 2" golden-yellow bowl-shaped flowers in July; native to China, Japan. Wood - close grained, moderately hard.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand.

* The long tassels of white flowers and red fall foliage make this an attractive ornamental. Most effective in massed plantings, as single plants tend to be scraggly. Individual shoot rise up and then arch over to some degree.

It is native to open forests, thickets and disturbed areas in Japan. Flowers give way to somewhat compressed two lobed fruits (seed capsules to 1" long). The plants flower best in years that follow hot summers.

The bark is removed and the shoots are used unsplit as rod foundations in coil basketry. * It is pollinated primarily by large bees in the family Apidae, such as carpenter bees, bumblebees, Anthophora, and Centris.

The fruit contains about 8.3% sugars, 4.5% protein, 1% ash. * Leaves bright green on top, silvery beneath, sweetly fragrant silvery-white flowers; red fruit in fall, loved by birds, which may spread the plant excessively; native to Japan.