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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
Sun ☀️Full Sun ⛅Part Sun/Shade ☁️Shade
Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)
Zone 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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Alder

Alder

Alnus species

Alfalfa

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa

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Alfalfa Dormant Ladak

Medicago sativa subsp. sativa cv. Ladak

Berseem Clover

Berseem Clover

Trifolium alexandrinum

Black Lentil

Black Lentil

Lens culinaris var. nigra

Black Locust

Black Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia

Chickpea Kabuli

Chickpea Kabuli

Cicer arietinum

Chickpea Kabuli JG 11

Chickpea Kabuli JG 11

Cicer arietinum

Clover

Clover

Trifolium repens (White Clover) / Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)

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Common Vetch

Vicia sativa

Crimson Clover

Crimson Clover

Trifolium incarnatum

Desert Bitterbrush

Desert Bitterbrush

Purshia tridentata

Kidney Bean

Kidney Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Mountain Alder

Mountain Alder

Alnus incana subsp. tenuifolia

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Nitrogen-Fixing Plants (General Category)

Various species with Rhizobium/Bradyrhizobium symbiosis

Purple Vetch

Purple Vetch

Vicia benghalensis

Sitka Alder

Sitka Alder

Alnus viridis subsp. sinuata

Vetch

Vetch

Vicia sativa

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White Clover

Trifolium repens

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Wooly Pod Vetch

Vicia villosa

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