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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+)

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Showing 9 plants (filtered)

Alder

Alnus species

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa

Berseem Clover

Trifolium alexandrinum

Black Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia

Clover

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

Desert Bitterbrush

Purshia tridentata

Mountain Alder

Alnus incana subsp. tenuifolia

Nitrogen-Fixing Plants (General Category)

Various species with Rhizobium/Bradyrhizobium symbiosis

Sitka Alder

Alnus viridis subsp. sinuata

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