Cover Crops 

 Extracted from Restoring the Soil by Roland Bunch

 

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Common Name Scientific Name

Alder

Alnus spp.

Azolia

Azolia pinnata

Bambara groundnut

Vigna subterranea

Black bean (see lablab bean)

 

Broad bean (see fava bean)

 

Buckwheat

Fagopyrum esculentum

Calopo

Calopogoniium mucunoides

Centrosema

Centrosema pubescens

Chickpea

Cicer arietinum

Choreque

Lathyrus nigrivalvis

Common pea

Pisum sativa

Cowpea

Vigna unguiculata

Crotalarias

Crotalaria spp.

Desmodium

Desmodium ovalifolium and D. trifolium

Faidherbia

Faidherbia albida

Fava bean

Vicia faba

Fonio

Digitaria exilis

Forage peanut (see perennial peanut)

 

Garbanzo bean (see chickpea)

 

Gliricidia

Gliricidia sepium

Grasspea

Lathyrus sativa

Green bean (see mung bean)

 

Groundnut (see peanut)

 

Horsepea (see lablab bean)

 

Hyacinth bean (see lablab bean)

 

Indigofera

Indigofera spp.

Inga

Inga spp.

Jack bean

Canavalia ensiformis

Lablab bean

Dolichos lablab

Leucaena

Leucaena leucocephala, L diversifolia

Lima bean

Phaseolus lunatus

Lojy Be (pronounced LOO dzeh BEH) (see cowpea)

 

Madre de cacao (see gliricidia)

 

Macuna

Mucuna spp.

Mung bean

Vigna radiate

Peanut

Arachis hypogaea

Perennial peanut

Arachis pintoi

Piliostigma

Piliostigma spp.

Quickstick (see gliricidia)

 

Rice bean

Vigna umbellate

Runner bean

Phaseolus coccineus

Scarlet runner bean (see runner bean)

 

Sesbania

Sesbania rostrate

Soybean

Glycine max

Stylo

Stylosanthes spp.

Sunn hemp

Crotalaria juncea

Sweet clover

Melilotus albus

Tailcup lupine

Lupinus caudatus

Tarwi

Lupinus mutabilis

Tephrosia

Tephrosia vogelii and T candida

Tithonia

Tithonia diversifolia

Velvet bean (see mucuna)

 

Vetch

Vicia spp.

Wild sunflower (see tithonia)

 

Yam bean

Pachyrhizus erosus


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