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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 14 plants (filtered)

Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Black Lentil

Lens culinaris var. nigra

Cowpea

Vigna unguiculata

Dwarf Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Field Pea CDC Amarillo

Pisum sativum subsp. arvense

Green Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Legumes

Fabaceae family

Legumes (Beans and Peas)

Fabaceae family (Phaseolus, Pisum, Vicia spp.)

Legumes (Peas and Beans)

Fabaceae family (Pisum sativum, Phaseolus vulgaris, Lens culinaris, Cicer arietinum)

Nitrogen-Fixing Legumes

Fabaceae family (various genera including Trifolium, Medicago, Vicia, Lupinus)

Nitrogen-Fixing Plants (General Category)

Various species with Rhizobium/Bradyrhizobium symbiosis

Pea

Pisum sativum

Pole Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Split Pea

Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon

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