Nitrogen Fixing Plants Dandelion Nettles, stinging Bracken, eastern Coltsfoot Meadow sweet Comfrey Kelp Dulse Horsetails

Lambs quarters Dock, broad leaved Mullein, common Watercress Parsley Plantains Salad burnet Bladder wrack Chamomile, German Chickweed Nitrogen Fixing Plants for Temperate Climate Permaculture TALL TREES for Temperate Climate Permaculture (50 feet or taller) Gray Alder, Alnus incana, Zone 2-6 Black Locust,! Robnia pseudoacacia, Zone 3b Japanese Pagoda Tree, Sophora japonica, Zone 4-8 SMALL TREES AND MEDIUM-LARGE SHRUBS for Temperate Climate Permaculture (3-50 feet tall) Prarie Acacia, Acacia angustissima, Zone 7-10 Silk Tree or Mimosa, Albizzia julibrisin, Zone 6 Alder,Italian, Alnus cordata, Zone 6 Alder, Speckled, Alnus rugosa, Zone 2-6 Alder, Smooth, Alnus serrulata, Zone 5-8 False Indigo, Amorpha fruticosa, Zone 3 Siberian Pea Shrub, Caragana arborescens, Zone 2-7 Russian Pea Shrub, Caragana frutex, Zone 2-7 Pygmy Pea Shrub, Caragana pygmaea, Zone 3-7 Mountain Mahogany, Cercocarpus montanus, Zone 6 Bladder Senna, Colutea arborescens, Zone 5-7 Russian Olive, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Zone 2 Silverberry, Elaeagnus commutata, Zone 2-6

Goumi, Elaeagnus multiora, Zone 5-8 Autumn Olive, Elaeagnus umbellata, Zone 3 Elaeagnus, Elaeagnus x ebbingei, Zone 6 Kentucky Coffee Tree, Gymnocladus dioica, Zone 4 Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, Zone 3-7 Golden-chain Tree, Laburnum anagyroides, Zone 5 Bush Clover, Lespedeza bicolor, Zone 4-7 Bush Clover, Lespedza thunbergii, Zone 5 Amur Maackia, Maackia amurensis, Zone 3-7 Southern Bayberry, Myrica cerifera, Zone 6b-9 Northern Bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, Zone 2-7 Honeypod Mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa, Zone 7 Bristly Locust, Robina hispida, Zone 4-8 Clammy Locust, Robina viscosa, Zone 5-8 Buffaloberry, Shepherdia argentea, Zone 2 Canadian Buffaloberry, Shepherdia canadensis, Zone 2 Spanish Broom, Spartium junceum, Zone 8 HERBACEOUS PLANTS AND SMALL SHRUBS for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Typically under 3 feet) Dwarf Prarie Acacia, Acacia angustissima hirta, Zone 7-10 Leadplant, Amorpha canescens, Zone 3 Fragrant False Indigo, Amorpha nana, Zone 3-6 Canadian Milkvetch, Astragalus canadensis, Zone 3-8 Groundplum Milkvetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, Zone 3-8 Milkvetch, Astragalus glycyphyllos, Zone 4-8 Huang-Qi, Astragalus membranaceous, Zone 5 Painted milkvetch, Astragalus pictus-lifolius, Zone 5 Wild Blue Indigo, Baptisia australis, Zone 4-8 Wild Yellow Indigo, Baptisia tinctoria, Zone 4-9 New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus, Zone 3b Mahala Mat, Ceanothus prostatus, Zone 7-10 Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina, Zone 2-6 Prostate Broom, Cytisus decumbens, Zone 6-8 Showy Tick Trefoil, Desmodium canadense, Zone 3-6 Pointed-Leaved Tick Trefoil, Desmodium glutinosum, Zone 3-9 Mountain Avens, Dryas octopetala, Zone 2-4 Silky-Leaf Woodowaxen, Genista pilosa, Zone 6-8 Trailing Silky-Leaf Woodwaxen, Genista pilosa procumbens, Zone 6-8 Arrow Broom, Genista sagittalis, Zone 3-8 Dryer's Greenwood, Genista tinctoria, Zone 4-7 American Licorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, Zone 3-8 European Licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Zone 6/7 Chinese Licorice, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Zone 5-9 Sweet Vetch, Hedysarum boreale, Zone 3 Sea Buckthorn "Dorana Dwarf", Hippophae rhamnoides cv., Zone 3-7

Chinese Indigo, Indigofera decora, Zone 5 Round-Headed Bush Clover, Lespedeza capitata, Zone 4-8 Prostate Bird's-Foot Trefoil 'Plena', Lotus corniculatus cv., Zone 5 Lupine, Lupinus species., Zone 3-9 Alfalfa, Medicago sativa, Zone 3 Sweet Gale, Myrica gale, Zone 1-6 Breadroot (Prarie Turnip), Psoralea esculenta, Zone 3-7 Two-Flowered Pencil Flower, Stylosanthes biora, Zone 5 Carolina Bush Pea, Thermopsis villosa, Zone 5-8 Red Clover, Trifolium pratense, Zone 3 White Clover, Trifolium repens, Zone 4 VINES AND CLIMBERS for Temperate Climate Permaculture Hog Peanut, Amphicarpeaea bracteata, Zone 3-9 Groundnut, Apios americana, Zone 3 Fortune's Groundnut, Apios fortunei, Zone ? Price's Groundnut, Apios priceana, Zone 6 Buttery Pea, Clitoria mariana, Zone 6-9 Beach Pea, Lathyrus japonicus maritima, Zone 3b-7 Perenial (Everlasting)!Pea, Lathyrus latifolius, Zone 4-9 Bitter Vetch, Lathyrus linifolius var. montanus, Zone 6b Earth-Nut Pea, Lathyrus tuberosus, Zone 6b Scarlet Runner Bean, Phaseolus coccineus, Zone 9 or Annual plant Wild Bean, Phaseolus polystachios, Zone 6-10 Pea, Pisum sativum, Annual plant Wild Bean, Stophostyles umbellata, Zone 6-9 American Vetch, Vicia americana, Zone 3-7 Wood Vetch, Vicia caroliniana, Zone 3-9 Tufted Vetch, Vicia cracca, Zone 6 Japanese Wisteria, Wisteria oribunda, Zone 4-9 American Wisteria, Wisteria frutescens, Zone 5 Kentucky Wisteria, Wisteria macrostachya, Zone 5-9 Most information for this page from Gaia's Garden and Edible Forest Gardens.