Nitrogen Fixing Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Michigan

* The tree has an extensive root system and can be planted to control banks from erosion. * 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 wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.

* It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * 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.

Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, W Shanxi, Xinjiang [Mongolia]. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain.

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

* An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites. * 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...

* Foliage, deciduous, is fragrant when crushed, and has been used medicinally; tiny fruits; branches once used in England to flavor "gale beer"; native to wet peaty areas in cold northern regions around the world.

A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.

The fruit must be fully ripe before it can be enjoyed raw, if even slightly under-ripe it will be quite astringent. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Because airborne nitrogen can be fixed in its roots, it has the capability to grow in infertile...

* Foliage, deciduous, is fragrant when crushed, and has been used medicinally; tiny fruits; branches once used in England to flavor "gale beer"; native to wet peaty areas in cold northern regions around the world.

* This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * 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.

It can withstand cold, heat, and drought. Korshin skii may occur where these species are sympatric. It sends roots down really fast to lock itself onto shifting sands and in search of moisture.

Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. Pharmaceutical preparations are manufactured from them. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends.

Cones are small, rectangular and about 1 centimetre across. * Flowers are reddish-brown in the male and red in the female. * Gold, green and grey dyes are obtained from the leaves.

Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, W Shanxi, Xinjiang [Mongolia]. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain.

It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. * Trifolium pratense is the national flower of Denmark and the state flower of Vermont.

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

The fruit must be fully ripe before it can be enjoyed raw, if even slightly under-ripe it will be quite astringent. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Because airborne nitrogen can be fixed in its roots, it has the capability to grow in infertile...

* An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites. * 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...

It can withstand cold, heat, and drought. Korshin skii may occur where these species are sympatric. It sends roots down really fast to lock itself onto shifting sands and in search of moisture.

A tall, tufted grass similar to tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea). Thrives in deep rich soil, but also grows well on poorer sandy soils providing they are moist. It has a short ligule compared to other grasses, and is an important forage crop.

Mearnsii is a tree of tall woodland and forests in subtropical and warm temperate regions. Other woodland species can rapidly utilise these increased nitrogen levels provided by the nodules of bacteria present in their expansive root systems.

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. Crispa, Mountain Alder). * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches...

It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter. It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others.

Cones are small, rectangular and about 1 centimetre across. * Flowers are reddish-brown in the male and red in the female. * Gold, green and grey dyes are obtained from the leaves.

* In culture, since 1882. * The nuts are edible. E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang (Daxinganling), Henan (Funiu Shan), ?Hubei, Jilin (Changbai Shan), Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Sichuan [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East)].

A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.