Nitrogen Fixing Plant Honey Bee Food For Sale In Rhode Island

Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia .

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. * This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants...

As of 1991, no known fire has killed this plant's roots. * Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub , and is adaptable to many habitats. Cerifera will also provide habitat for the Northern Bobwhite Quail.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen.

* This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically. * The flowers can be eaten raw. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch...

It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea...

Mearnsii plays an important role in the ecosystem in its native Australia. Mearnsii is a tree of tall woodland and forests in subtropical and warm temperate regions. * Leuco-fisetinidin, a flavan-3,4-diol (leucoanthocyanidin) and a monomer of the condensed...

* The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * 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.

This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies . It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

* This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically. * The flowers can be eaten raw. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch...

* Catalpa ovata, the yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa , is a pod-bearing tree native to China. * Fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. * The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan.

This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies . It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain. * This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants...

* Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion. * Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil.

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico .

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen.

It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems. * Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties.

* Sweet clover is a major source of nectar for domestic honey bees as hives near sweetclover can yield up to 200 pounds of honey in a year. * Melilotus officinalis, known as yellow sweet clover, yellow melilot, ribbed melilo and common melilot is a species...

* A good bee plant. * Established plants are drought tolerant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the...

* The leaves are antiemetic, astringent, blood tonic and stomachic. * Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade. An infusion has been taken by women when their periods are unusually long.

* The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur. Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties.

* Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple in fall; yellow flowers followed by bright red fruit, very attractive in winter; generally a good, tough plant; good deciduous hedge plant.

* White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange; suckers to form thickets; native to woods, dunes, and prairies from Nova Scotia to Maryland and Texas * It is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing...

* There are numerous cultivars widely grown in horticulture. All are perennial, with numerous leafy stems growing from the base at the beginning of summer. The plant prefers full sun, good drainage, and moderate weekly watering.

* Adonis aestivalis ( Summer pheasant's-eye ) is a medicinal and ornamental plant . * ANNUAL growing to 0.3 m (1ft). The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies, beetles.The plant is self-fertile.

* An orange-red to brown dye can be obtained from the bark. 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 deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods. Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. Seeds are eaten by many birds. * The plant contains several biologically active compounds.