Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Elgin

Maryland Senna, Wild Senna Senna marilandica - Cassia marilandica

Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the...

Species: marilandica
Germination Test Type: cut
Crop Year: 1999
Seeds Per Pound: 24,062
Purity: 99%
Quantity: 3.96 lb

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Southern Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera

Price : CALL

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

Height: 15-40 feet
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Botanical Name: Myrica cerifera dried berries
Family: MYRICACEAE

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Georgia False Indigo, False Indigo, Savannah Indigobush Amorpha georgiana confusa - Amorpha cyanostachya

Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Genus: !Amorpha L. It's habitat is being destroyed and it is currently listed as a threatened species. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North Carolina.

Collection Locale: Boston MA
Purity: 99%
Crop Year: 1988
Genus: Amorpha
Lot#: 8801
Botanical Name: Amorpha georgiana confusa

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Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Birdfoot Deervetch Lotus corniculatus

Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. Has fair drought and poor shade tolerance. It is also known in cultivation in North America as Birdfoot Deervetch . Will produce a complete cover in a few months.

Genus: Lotus
Germination: 85%
Species: corniculatus
Height: 1ft
Germination Test Type: estimate
Botanical Name: Lotus corniculatus

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Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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.

98%

Height: 2-4 feet
Botanical Name: Crotalaria assamica
Purity: 98%
Collection Locale: Hawaii
Germination: 98%
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10

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Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed Baptisia australis

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Australis is an herbaceous perennial that reproduces both sexually and asexually by means of its spreading rhizomes . Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such...

Genus: Baptisia
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 34
Common Name: Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed
Germination: 98%
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Germination Test Type: cut

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Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Common Name: Indian Rattlebox
Height: 2-4 feet
Botanical Name: Crotalaria assamica
Germination: 98%
Genus: Crotalaria
Crop Year: 2015

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Italian Alder Alnus cordata

Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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 nearby.

Seeds Per Pound: 186,140
Botanical Name: Alnus cordata
Collection Locale: Italy
Purity: 99%
Common Name: Italian Alder
Quantity: 0.14 lb

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Black False Hellebore, False Hellebore Veratrum nigrum

Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

Purity: 97%
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Collection Locale: Germany
Genus: Veratrum
Family: Liliaceae
Common Name: Black False Hellebore, False Hellebore

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Lemon Cucumber Cucumis sativus Lemon

Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* These small round cucumbers ripen to a lemon yellow color.

Common Name: Lemon Cucumber
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 69
Purity: 99%
Germination: 85%
Seeds Per Pound: 18,704
Quantity: 3.12 lb

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Orange Wattle, Coojong, Golden Wreath Wattle, Blue-leaved Wattle, Western Australian Golden Wattle, Port Jackson Willow Acacia cyanophylla - Acacia saligna , Acacia bracteata , Acacia lindleyi , Mimosa saligna , Racosperma salignum

Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year. This is one of the best woody species for binding moving sand. * Makes a good screen or hedge in warm temperate areas.

Height: 18-20 feet
Family: LEGUMINOSAE
Germination: 98%
Seeds Per Pound: 26,432
Germination Test Type: cut
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 56

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Field Clover Trifolium campestre - Trifolium procumbens

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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 habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

Germination: 84%
Height: 6-12in.
Common Name: Field Clover
Purity: 99%
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 36
Species: campestre

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Pygmy Peashrub Caragana pygmaea

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

Genus: Caragana
Quantity: 0.47 lb
Seeds Per Pound: 40,860
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
Common Name: Pygmy Peashrub
Height: 4-5 feet

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Red Clover, Mammoth Red Clover Trifolium pratense Mammoth

Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Trifolium pratense is used in traditional medicine of India as deobstruent, antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antidermatosis agent. The leaves are alternate, trifoliate (with three leaflets), each leaflet 15–30 mm long and...

Height: 2-3 feet
Botanical Name: Trifolium pratense Mammoth
Seeds Per Pound: 245,405
Common Name: Red Clover, Mammoth Red Clover
Quantity: 3.7 lb
Purity: 99%

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Chinese Ginseng Panax ginseng

Price : CALL

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.

Species: ginseng
Common Name: Chinese Ginseng
Family: Araliaceae
Botanical Name: Panax ginseng

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Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum - Sophora japonica

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna.

Common Name: Japanese Pagoda Tree
Family: Leguminosae
Collection Locale: Hungary
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
Botanical Name: Styphnolobium japonicum
Quantity: 9.65 lb

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Mountain Alder Alnus crispa - Alnus viridis crispa

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Northeastern North America, Greenland. * It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * Alnus viridis subsp. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing...

Height: 10-15 feet
Crop Year: 2013
Family: BETULACEAE
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
Purity: 98%
Quantity: 0.08 lb

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Water Locust Gleditsia aquatica

Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Wood - heavy, very hard, strong, durable in contact with the soil, coarse-grained. * Gleditsia aquatica, commonly called water locust, after its habitat of river swamps and slough margins.

Genus: Gleditsia
Germination: 91%
Common Name: Water Locust
Height: 30-40 feet
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Species: aquatica

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Calico Aster Symphyotrichum lateriflorum - Aster lateriflorus

Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Symphyotrichum lateriflorum is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves , on stiff, purplish stems. The flowers are white, borne in fall.

Species: lateriflorum
Crop Year: 1999
Collection Locale: Iowa
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Lot#: 9901
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 865

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Littleleaf Caragana, Littleleaf Peashrub Caragana microphylla

Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

This species is planted for dune stabilization and for soil and water conservation. My guess is that you shouldn't plant it unless you want to have it for a long time. It can even be buried in sand and find its way to the surface.

Species: microphylla
Collection Locale: China
Botanical Name: Caragana microphylla
Crop Year: 2012
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
Common Name: Littleleaf Caragana, Littleleaf Peashrub

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Common Rue Ruta graveolens

Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Rue has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, being especially valued for its strengthening action on the eyes. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance...

Germination: 98%
Species: graveolens
Quantity: 2.32 lb
Crop Year: 2017
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 256
Seeds Per Pound: 238,947

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Black Wattle Acacia mearnsii

Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Leuco-fisetinidin, a flavan-3,4-diol (leucoanthocyanidin) and a monomer of the condensed tannins called profisetinidins, can be extracted from the heartwood of A. This plant is now known as one of the worst invasive species in the world.

Common Name: Black Wattle
Collection Locale: India
Crop Year: 2015
Family: Fabaceae
Species: mearnsii
Height: 30-60 feet

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Bouncing Bet, Soapwort, Bouncingbet Saponaria officinalis

Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* An herbaceous perennial, erect; with 3/4"white or pinkish fragrant flowers in terminal clusters and in the leaf axils; blooms throughout summer; spreads by creeping rhizomes; roots used as a soap substitute; grows on roadsides; native to Europe, but...

Seeds Per Pound: 267,860
Genus: Saponaria
Common Name: Bouncing Bet, Soapwort, Bouncingbet
Species: officinalis
Height: 3 feet
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 97

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Windflower, Greek Thimbleweed, Grecian Windflower, Grecian Wind Flower Anemone blanda

Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

Well worth putting in a partial shade location. It mixes well with other bulbs. Plants flower the second year from seed, so the wait isn't too long. * Sky blue to deep blue flowers in April, native to Greece, forms tubers, self sows to form mass plantings.

Genus: Anemone
Family: Ranunculaceae
Germination Test Type: cut
Height: 6-8 inches
Germination: 91%
Purity: 99%

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Birthwort Aristolochia clematitis

Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Use with caution, internal consumption can cause damage to the kidneys and uterine bleeding. * Birthwort has a very long history of medicinal use, though it has been little researched scientifically and is little used by present-day herbalists.

Species: clematitis
Family: Aristolochiaceae
Germination Test Type: cut
Purity: 99%
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Seeds Per Pound: 8,807

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Sensitive Partridge Pea Chamaecrista nictitans

Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

Crop Year: 2014
Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 33
Genus: Chamaecrista
Germination Test Type: cut
Collection Locale: Hawaii
Purity: 97%

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European Alder Alnus glutinosa

Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. * The trees are very quick to establish and will grow at a rate of 1 metre or more per year when young. * Tolerant of clipping and maritime exposure, the alder can be grown in a windbreak...

Germination: 91%
Height: 60-100 feet
Family: Betulaceae
Common Name: European Alder
Botanical Name: Alnus glutinosa
Quantity: 21.87 lb

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