Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Nebraska

* This easily cultivated, Annual plant grows and blooms best in cooler climates, but if kept cool by mulching around the base it can grow in hotter areas as well. * Make sure to water during the hot months to keep it from fading, and pick off dead flowers...

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate...

* The green pods are commonly used as a vegetable, they have a mild flavour and should only be cooked for a short time. This will ensure the continued production of more pods by the plant.

Mature seeds are eaten cooked. The seed can also be roasted and eaten like peanuts or fermented and used as tempeh. Slightly sweet, it contains 20% or more protein, which is about 12 times that of potatoes.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . It is very good. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins .

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...

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.

Both are dried for later use. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn.

Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long. The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a sickle -shaped keel. * Perennial wild flower, Flowers in clusters, color purple.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. Thick growing and winter hardy. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas...

Trifolium pratense is used in traditional medicine of India as deobstruent, antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antidermatosis agent. * It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil...

This species is very susceptible to slug damage. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada (south of Ontario), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows on sand hills.

* A herbaceous, forage, perennial, cool season legume. * Lotus corniculatus is a common flowering plant native to grassland temperate Eurasia and North Africa . It is also known in cultivation in North America as Birdfoot Deervetch .

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

Both are dried for later use. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn.

This is an extremely rare tree, almost extinct in its native range. It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in October. Wood - hard, durable, finishes to a fine lustre. The tree can fix nitrogen.

It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama , Peru and Venezuela . * Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family.

Mature bushes in the wild yield about 650g of fruit over 2 - 3 pickings. Because airborne nitrogen can be fixed in its roots, it has the capability to grow in infertile habitats. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.

* Alder trees also have a heavy leaf canopy and when the leaves fall in the autumn they help to build up the humus content of the soil. * The tree has an extensive root system and can be planted to control banks from erosion.

* A spiny tree with small greenish flowers in 4" racemes; leaves pinnate or bipinnate; name suggests it is a good choice for wet areas; native to southeast U.S. * Having an extensive root system, it is planted for stabilizing wet banks and marshes.

* It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States. * Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil.

* An essential oil obtained from the flowers is used in perfumery. Noxious weed in California. * Plants can be grown as a hedge in exposed positions, tolerating maritime exposure. * Because the plant fixes atmospheric nitrogen, it makes a hedge that enriches...

It is slow to bolt as summer progresses so it can be grown later in the spring than many varieties. It is ready to harvest in about 60 days from sowing and does well in cool weather in the spring and early summer.

It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover. * Bristly Locust ( Robinia hispida ) is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae , native to the southeastern United States...

* Native to temperate forests, stream-banks, swamps and roadsides in northeastern Asia and Japan. * A decidious Tree growing to 22 m (72ft 2in) at a fast rate.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . It is very good. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins .

Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . * Leucaena leucocephala is a species of small Mimosoid tree that is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America ( Belize and Guatemala ).