Nitrogen Fixing Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Memphis

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

* The plant is under investigation as a potential stimulant of the immune system. Australis is an herbaceous perennial that reproduces both sexually and asexually by means of its spreading rhizomes .

* 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.

* A herbaceous, forage, perennial, cool season legume. Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. A useful green manure plant, fixing atmospheric nitrogen. It is also known in cultivation in North America as Birdfoot Deervetch .

Both are dried for later use. The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats. A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores.

A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. * The wood is heavy, hard and brittle. * Cercocarpus montanus is common in the chaparral, on mesas and on the lower foothills of the south eastern Rocky mountains of North America.

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * 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.

Plants are hardy to about -25°c. This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada...

Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most...

Group as a shrub to maximize effect of the spring bloom. Succeeds in cold exposed situations and tolerates industrial pollution. * Gorgeous yellow flowers in 15" pendulous clusters in May, beautifully displayed against deep green leaves; few trees are...

Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Flowers and flower buds - raw or cooked. The roasted seed is a coffee substitute. Immature seeds are used in soups etc. The yields of pods average 250 - 500g per m².

The leaves are trifoliate with a long petiole, each leaflet hairy, 8-16 mm across, with a truncated or bilobed apex. It is also suitable for making into hay. It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification; it tends, however,...

It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern.

* Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia , Clianthus , and Montigena .Flowering of Kowhai is staggered, from July through to November, meaning each tree will get attention from birds.

It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . * The leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is very good. * The Psoralea glandulosa, also called wallwa, culen or St. Augustine grass is a perennial...

* The trees are very quick to establish and will grow at a rate of 1 metre or more per year when young. * The plants can be used as a source of biomass. * Native to most of Europe, including all of the British Isles and Fennoscandia and locally in Southwest...

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * Resinous pustules on the plant contain 'amorpha', a contact and stomachic insecticide that also acts as an insect repellent.

* 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.

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. * Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze,...

* It produces an abundance of 8-9 inch dark green cucumbers with excellent mild flavor. * This open pollinated variety has been around a long time and is still the favorite.

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden due to their dense hairiness. * It has very small purple flowers which are grouped in racemes .

* It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade. * Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions.

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. 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...

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

It's habitat is being destroyed and it is currently listed as a threatened species. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Species: !Amorpha georgiana Wilbur

The flowers are white, borne in fall. * Symphyotrichum lateriflorum is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves , on stiff, purplish stems.

It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover. In comparison with most other shrubs it will excel in seedling vigor. It should not be used for residential plantings, or anywhere that formal landscaping...