Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Boise City

It grows rapidly in spring, and yields an abundant crop of green food, particularly palatable to live stock. * It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle.

* 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 .

* Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

The yields of pods average 250 - 500g per m². They tastes like French beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). Will trail along the ground or can be trained up a trellis. Immature seeds are used in soups etc.

Thick growing and winter hardy. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

It grows naturally in wetlands, near flowing bodies of water, sand dunes , fields, hillsides, pine barrens , and in both needleleaf and mixed-broadleaf forests. In winter, the seeds are important foods for the Carolina Wren and species of Tree Sparrow...

Young fruit can be eaten as a vegetable while ripe fruits can be use to make bath sponges. It is native to northern Africa. Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt...

* 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, meaning each tree will get attention from birds.

Its typical habitat is rough grassy places, broad-leaved woodland, forest margins, hedgerows and banks. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato.

* A low and clump-forming shrub; sometimes a small tree. In addition, bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing...

* Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * 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.

Both are dried for later use. They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully...

It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where it grows mostly in mountain habitat. It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height.

* Centaurea montana ( Perennial Cornflower, Mountain Cornflower, Bachelor's Button, Montane Knapweed or Mountain Bluet ) is a species of Centaurea endemic to Europe . It is widespread and common in the more southerly mountain ranges of Europe, but is...

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.

* The plant self-sows freely and should not need much encouragement. * The flowers appear from late spring to summer in umbelliform cymes of about 4 flowers.The seeds are small and black, borne in a long capsule .

* In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps, floodplain pools, rocky or sandy shores, fens, marshes, beaver ponds, and disturbed wetlands. * A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic.

* Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer.

* The foliage was burned by the Cherokee as a natural insecticide, to smoke out gnats. Side effects can include sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, rapid heartbeat, mental confusion, convulsions, hypothermia, coma, and possibly death.

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

* Paeonia anomala has an immense range of wild habitat, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, then to the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan .

They are sometimes put in beer and ale to improve the flavour and increase foaming. Common names include Bog Myrtle and Sweet Gale . * Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica , native to northern and western Europe and parts of...

Common names in English include lilyturf, big blue lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. It is a perennial with grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single seeded berries on a spike in the fall.

* This species produces flowering plants in 2 - 3 years from seed. Take care since the plant resents disturbance. The large, flat flowers, borne on short stems from midwinter to early spring, are white, or occasionally pink.

* In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives of Hispaniola. * Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-grown herbaceous...