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Nitrogen-Fixing Plants

Legumes and cover crops that naturally enrich your soil by converting atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available nutrients.

Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

Zone 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Showing 14 plants (filtered)

Alsike Clover

Trifolium hybridum

Bird's-foot trefoil

Lotus corniculatus

Common Vetch

Vicia sativa

Crimson Clover

Trifolium incarnatum

Legumes

Fabaceae family

Legumes (Beans and Peas)

Fabaceae family (Phaseolus, Pisum, Vicia spp.)

Mung Bean

Vigna radiata

Nitrogen-Fixing Ground Covers

Various species (e.g., Trifolium repens, Medicago lupulina, Vicia sativa)

Pea

Pisum sativum

Purple Vetch

Vicia benghalensis

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

Trefoil

Lotus corniculatus

White Dutch Clover

Trifolium repens

Wooly Pod Vetch

Vicia villosa

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