Stylosanthes biflora - Pencil flower

Pencil Flower is a low-growing perennial with small yellow flowers. It is used as a forage plant for livestock and for soil improvement due to its nitrogen-fixing ability. Pencil Flower is also valued for its drought tolerance and resilience in poor soils.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹

Outputs

• Livestock forage¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial

Functions

• Nitrogen fixer²
• Drought-tolerance
• Insect shelter¹

Footnotes

1. Stylosanthes biflora - Sidebeak Pencilflower | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Gaia’s Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition Table 6-3 ↩