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Genus: A

Acanthus: bear's breech
Acorus: sweet flag
Actinidia: hardy kiwi fruit; bower vine; kolomikta vine; tara vine
Adiantum: northern maidenhair fern
Agastache: Giant hyssop
Ajuga: Bugleweed
Akebia: five-leaved akebia
Allium: onion; chives
Ammophila: American beachgrass
Amphicarpaea: hog peanut
Amsonia: Arkansas blue-star; blue star; thread-leaf blue star; willow amsonia
Andropogon: big bluestem; turkey-foot
Anemone: Canada anemone
Antennaria: pussytoes
Anthoxanthum: sweet vernal grass
Apios: Indian potato; groundnut
Aquilegia: Columbine
Aralia: sarsparilla
Arctostaphylos: bearberry; kinnikinick
Arenaria
Arisaema
Aristolochia
Armeria: sea pink
Aruncus: Goatsbeard
Arundinaria: canebrake bamboo; large cane; small canebrake bamboo; southern cane; switch cane
Arundo: giant reed; Italian reed; cana brava
Asarum: Wild ginger
Asclepias: butterfly weed; swamp milkweed
Asimina: pawpaw
Aster: aster
Athyrium: lady fern
Atrichum: (moss)

Next: B

Catalog as of August 27, 2012

Amphicarpaea

(Leguminosae - bean family)

Hog peanut Three species of twining herbaceous vines. Seeds are often borne below ground level, in peanut fashion.

bracteata

peren vine • ht usually 1-3' • zones 3-9

hog peanut

native, edible, ground cover, sun - shade
e and cent N Amer

A vigorous twiner with typically bean-like leaves and slender stems. The small flowers appear in late summer. The upper, pale lilac to white flowers bear pods containing inedible seeds, but the petal-less flowers near the ground yield relatively large, edible seeds just below ground level. These subterranean seeds, which can be produced quite abundantly, may be cooked and eaten like beans. These seeds have been used as food by the American Indians. As a landscape subject hog peanut has interesting potential, particularly as a ground cover. The foliage forms a dense cover, and the plant remains quite low when it has nothing on which to climb.

cat # 5A9V
$8.95 each / 3-9, $8.50 ea / 10+, $7.95 ea