Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Connecticut

Species: !Amorpha georgiana Wilbur Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North Carolina. Genus: !Amorpha L.

Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. Will produce a complete cover in a few months. The common name is Bird's-foot Trefoil (or similar, such as "birdsfoot trefoil"), though the common name is often also applied to other members...

* The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. * Beautiful 2" golden yellow pealike flowers in pendulous clusters to 8", in May; pod, to 7", has four wings; evergreen or semideciduous compound leaves; native...

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

The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

* Its fast rate of growth means that it quickly provides sheltered conditions to allow more permanent woodland trees to become established. * This is an excellent pioneer species for re-establishing woodlands on disused farmland, difficult sites etc.

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins . A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves. * It is a perennial plant that develops in a cultivated or wild in the mountains of Peru .

* 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. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.

It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow than when a plowing is given. * It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle.

* A very tolerant and easily grown plant, it succeeds in almost any soil or situation so long as it is not water-logged. Succeeds in cold exposed situations and tolerates industrial pollution.

Readily eaten by grazing animals. Used as a reclamation species on very poor soils. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. Seeds are eaten by many birds.

This is an extremely rare tree, almost extinct in its native range. It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in October. Dioica, Kentucky Coffee Tree; planted for ornament and for timber; doubly compound leaves; substantial branches; flowers in clusters...

* It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade. * Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions.

* The fruit is a source of food for a lot of bird species, including the Northern Bobwhite Quail and the Wild Turkey . Specimens in drier and sandier areas are shrub-like, have rhizomes and smaller leaves than usual.

* Leucaena leucocephala has been considered for biomass production, as its reported yield of foliage corresponds to a dried mass of 2000–2 kg/ha/year, and that of wood 30–40 m³/ha/year, with up to twice those amounts in favourable climates.

It is native to northern Africa. Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt "Luffa aegyptica", it is cultivated and grown for its fruit.

It can even be buried in sand and find its way to the surface. It may be hard to kill! * Caragana microphylla is a polymorphic species and in some cases with transitional forms. It sends roots down really fast to lock itself onto shifting sands and in...

It is an ingredient in some recipes for essiac tea. * It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility. * Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions,...

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.

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 antiquity the most famous place for the black hellebore was the Phokian city of Antikyra...

Used for flooring, axe handles, firewood, poles etc. * Gold, green and grey dyes are obtained from the leaves. * The plant forms suckers and is a good soil stabilizer. * Wood - dark, durable, closely grained, nicely marked, not as heavy as that of other...

* 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.

* Corn Salad is a gourmet green that has been used in Europe for centuries. * American president Thomas Jefferson cultivated mache at his home, Monticello, in Virginia in the early 1800s.

* The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. * Beautiful 2" golden yellow pealike flowers in pendulous clusters to 8", in May; pod, to 7", has four wings; evergreen or semideciduous compound leaves; native...