Nitrogen Fixing Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In North Carolina

The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

* While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers.

It is also known in cultivation in North America as Birdfoot Deervetch . Yellow flowers from May to July. Will produce a complete cover in a few months. Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils.

* Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .

* 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.

The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

* The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow .

It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism. * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified...

* 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. The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden due to their dense hairiness.

Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. Pharmaceutical preparations are manufactured from them. * A deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods. Readily eaten by grazing animals.

* A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. Thick growing and winter hardy. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand.

* 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,...

* Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub , and is adaptable to many habitats. Three consecutive years of shoot destruction may kill all plants affected. If this does not happen, this species will regrow a shoot.

* It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate...

A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. * Tolerant of maritime exposure and amenable to training, this species can be grown as a hedge in seaside gardens. Montanus often remains under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height because of browsing by elk...

* Calia secundiflora is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae , that is native to the southwestern United States ( Texas , New Mexico ) and Mexico ( Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo , Puebla and Queretaro ).

It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism. * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified...

* During the 1970s and 1980s it was promoted as a "miracle tree" for its multiple uses. * The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. * Leucaena leucocephala has been considered for biomass production, as its reported yield...

It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height. In Oregon , where the plant is native, it has been cultivated for several uses, including reforestation and revegetation of roadsides and other disturbed habitat.

* This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. * The Cercocarpus betuloides leaves are distinctive in that they have smooth edges from the base to about half way up, then are wavy or toothed to the rounded tip.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins . * The leaves are used as a tea substitute. * The Psoralea glandulosa, also called wallwa, culen or St. Augustine grass is a...

* The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of the respiratory system. * Ephedra nevadensis ( Nevada ephedra ) is a species of Ephedra native to dry areas...

In addition, 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.

* While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers.

* Native to most of Europe, including all of the British Isles and Fennoscandia and locally in Southwest Asia. Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. * Tolerant of clipping and maritime exposure, the alder can be grown in a windbreak...

* Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.

These seeds are buried ready for germinating with the next soaking rains. * Ants harvest the seed, attracted by the fleshy, oil rich elaiosome (or seed stalk), which they bury and store in widely dispersed locations.