Best Nitrogen Fixing
Lupines (Lupinus) are a genus of over 200 flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, native to the Americas and the Mediterranean region. They are easily recognized by their tall, erect spikes of densely packed pea-like flowers and their palmately divided leaves. As legumes, they form a symbio...
False Indigo is a flowering plant in the legume family native to North America, historically notable because indigenous peoples used its flowers as a substitute for true indigo dye.
Siberian peashrub native to Siberia and Manchuria, extensively planted in North American prairie shelterbelts as a nitrogen-fixing windbreak since the 19th century.
False indigo bush native to North America, a nitrogen-fixing shrub bearing dense purple flower spikes in summer and now considered invasive in parts of Europe and Asia.
A nitrogen-fixing shrub native to cool mountainous regions of Europe and North America, often the first woody plant to colonize disturbed alpine and subalpine slopes.
