Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Sacramento

* 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...

* 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.

* 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.

Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor. Root - raw or cooked like potatoes. They are used like spinach. They have a flavour similar to mushrooms when sauteed. The pods are harvested when about 15 - 20 cm long and 2cm wide.

Has fair drought and poor shade tolerance. * A herbaceous, forage, perennial, cool season legume. Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. A useful green manure plant, fixing atmospheric nitrogen.

Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves. * The leaves are used as a tea substitute. * It is a perennial plant that develops in a cultivated or wild in the mountains...

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * A shrub; shiny dark green leaves to 3" long; Native to Europe.

Used for bearings, turnery, cabinet work, ornamental uses etc. * The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia...

* Red clover is commonly used to make a sweet-tasting herbal tea. It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most...

* The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * A shrub; shiny dark green leaves to 3" long; Native to Europe.

* Plants have an extensive root system, they tolerate poor dry soils and are also wind resistant, they are used as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion. This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands.

* This species is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers.

* 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.

* Native to most of Europe, including all of the British Isles and Fennoscandia and locally in Southwest Asia. * Tolerant of clipping and maritime exposure, the alder can be grown in a windbreak or a hedge.

* While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets.

It is fairly fast-growing and very tolerant of pruning, but is rather open in habit and does not form a dense screen. * Elaeagnus angustifolia ( Russian Silverberry , Oleaster , or Russian-olive ) is a species of Elaeagnus , native to western and central...

* This is an excellent pioneer species for re-establishing woodlands on disused farmland, difficult sites etc. * 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...

* The plant is under investigation as a potential stimulant of the immune system. Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such as Great Britain, where it has gained...

* The plant is little used in modern herbalism. * An infusion of the bark has been used in the treatment of many complaints such as headaches, rheumatic pains, internal injuries and diarrhoea.

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

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.

This soap is very good at removing dirt, though it does not remove oils very well. * Ceanothus velutinus is a species of shrub in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae , known by the common names Red Root , Snowbrush Ceanothus and Tobacco Brush .

It is a shrub growing to heights of 12 feet or more and is a perennial . * The whole plant, known as ning tiao, is used in the treatment of cancer of the breast, and the orifice to the womb, and for dysmenorrhoea and other gynaecological problems.

It is also efficient in nitrogen fixation, at more than 500 kg/ha/year. Leucocephala is used for a variety of purposes, such as firewood , fiber and livestock fodder . * Leucaena leucocephala has been considered for biomass production, as its reported...