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Nitrogen Fixing

133 objects

These amazing organisms are like nature's tiny fertilizer factories! They take nitrogen from the air and turn it into food for plants, enriching the soil for everyone.

Describes organisms capable of converting atmospheric nitrogen into compounds usable by plants.

PlantTreeFungi

Objects with this trait

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Acacia
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Acacia
Agave
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Agave
Alder
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Alder
Alfalfa
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Alfalfa
Alsike clover
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Alsike clover
American vetch
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American vetch
Arctic Lupine
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Arctic Lupine
Barestem Biscuitroot
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Barestem Biscuitroot
Beach Bean
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Beach Bean
Beach Sheoak
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Beach Sheoak
Bent-flower Milkvetch
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Bent-flower Milkvetch
Black Locust
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Black Locust
Black Medick
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Black Medick
Bladderpod
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Bladderpod
Broadleaf Lupine
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Broadleaf Lupine
Bush Vetch
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Bush Vetch
Candelabra Bush
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Candelabra Bush
Castor Bean
broadleaf_tree trait badgemedicinal trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badgeoil_crop trait badge
Castor Bean
Catbells
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Catbells
Chinese bushclover
deciduous trait badgeflowering trait badgegrassland trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
Chinese bushclover
Cladonia
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Cladonia
Clover
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Clover
Common Duckweed
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Common Duckweed
Common Kidney-Vetch
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Common Kidney-Vetch
Common Vetch
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Common Vetch
Eastern Coral Bean
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Eastern Coral Bean
English Ivy
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English Ivy
Eucalyptus
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Eucalyptus
Fourwing Saltbush
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Fourwing Saltbush
Fruticose Lichen
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Fruticose Lichen
Golden bean
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Golden bean
Grimmia
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Grimmia
Guinea Grass
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Guinea Grass
Jute
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Jute
Kudzu
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Kudzu
Lambert's Locoweed
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Lambert's Locoweed
Large-leaved lupine
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Large-leaved lupine
Laxmann's Milkvetch
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Laxmann's Milkvetch
Legumes
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Legumes
Lesser hop trefoil
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Lesser hop trefoil
Locust Trees
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Locust Trees
Lupine
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Lupine
Mesquite
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Mesquite
Mexican palo verde
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Mexican palo verde
Miniature Lupine
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Miniature Lupine
Mountain Oxytrope
cold_hardy trait badgeflowering trait badgekeystone_species trait badgemountain trait badge
Mountain Oxytrope
Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea
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Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea
Necklace pod
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Necklace pod
Pea
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Pea
Peanut
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Peanut
Perennial Sow Thistle
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Perennial Sow Thistle
Phasey Bean
colorful trait badgegrassland trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badgeornamental trait badge
Phasey Bean
Platyhypnidium Moss
decomposer trait badgeforest trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badgenonvascular trait badge
Platyhypnidium Moss
Plume Albizia
broadleaf_tree trait badgedeciduous trait badgeflowering trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
Plume Albizia
Rattlebush
deciduous trait badgeflowering trait badgefragrant_flower trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
Rattlebush
Red Alder
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Red Alder
Red Clover
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Red Clover
Redwood
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Redwood
Russian olive
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Russian olive
Sainfoin
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Sainfoin
Scarlet Sesbane
colorful trait badgedeciduous trait badgeflowering trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
Scarlet Sesbane
Scotch Broom
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Scotch Broom
Sea Lettuces
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Sea Lettuces
Sea-buckthorn
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Sea-buckthorn
Seashore Lupine
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Seashore Lupine
Siberian peashrub
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Siberian peashrub
Sideoats Grama
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Sideoats Grama
Sierra Nevada Peavine
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Sierra Nevada Peavine
Silky Lupine
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Silky Lupine
Silver Bush Lupine
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Silver Bush Lupine
Soybean
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Soybean
Spider Lupine
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Spider Lupine
Spotted medick
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Spotted medick
Texas bluebonnet
colorful trait badgeflowering trait badgegrassland trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
Texas bluebonnet
Timber Milkvetch
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Timber Milkvetch
Tufted Milkvetch
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Tufted Milkvetch
White Sweetclover
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White Sweetclover
Wild Cowpea
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Wild Cowpea
Wild Lupine
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Wild Lupine
Woolly Locoweed
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Woolly Locoweed
Yellow Sweetclover
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Yellow Sweetclover
alder buckthorn
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alder buckthorn
alkali mallow
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alkali mallow
arabian pea
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arabian pea
autumn olive
deciduous trait badgeedible trait badgeflowering trait badgefruit_bearing trait badge
autumn olive
bird's-foot trefoil
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bird's-foot trefoil
blue palo verde
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blue palo verde
bowl clover
cluster_flower trait badgeedible trait badgeflowering trait badgegrassland trait badge
bowl clover
branching phacelia
cluster_flower trait badgefurry trait badgegrassland trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
branching phacelia
chaparral pea
colorful trait badgedrought_tolerant trait badgeevergreen trait badgeflowering trait badge
chaparral pea
coastal bush lupine
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coastal bush lupine
coastal woodfern
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coastal woodfern
common milkpea
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common milkpea
common reed
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common reed
crimson clover
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crimson clover
deerbrush ceanothus
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deerbrush ceanothus
deerweed
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deerweed
eastern wild indigo
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eastern wild indigo
false indigo bush
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false indigo bush
field locoweed
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field locoweed
field penny-cress
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field penny-cress
giant vetch
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giant vetch
goat's rue
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goat's rue
great horsetail
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great horsetail
grey alder
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grey alder
hairy vetch
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hairy vetch
hoary alyssum
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hoary alyssum
honey mesquite
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honey mesquite
large hop clover
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large hop clover
leadplant
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leadplant
meadow pea
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meadow pea
melilots and sweetclovers
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melilots and sweetclovers
mule fat
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mule fat
mustard family
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mustard family
needle-leaved broom
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needle-leaved broom
partridge pea
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partridge pea
pinto peanut
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pinto peanut
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
deciduous trait badgeflowering trait badgegrassland trait badgenitrogen_fixing trait badge
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
prairie false indigo
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prairie false indigo