Hopniss tubers (American groundnuts) Apios americana

Hopniss tubers (American groundnuts) Apios americanaHopniss AKA American groundnuts (Apios americana) NOW IN STOCK! Best planted NOW until early Spring, but they won't last, so don't wait to get these amazing plants a must for any temperate permaculture system, food forest, or homestead! Delicious, nutritious, protein and starch rich tubers (cooked) Nitrogen fixer leguminous Hardy to Zone 5 Vine layer plant Full sun to partial shade Likes soil on the moist side Good in ground and in containers (see

and even in the wide open sunny Central Valley

If you can put them in full sun with something to climb on

NOW IN STOCK

The leaves are quite large and can be used for wraps

Eastern North America native

They have a deep taproot so do best in the ground

Tolerant of Black Walnut (juglone)

rooted plants in potting soil shipped to you

Passionflower medicine can be made from the leaves and flowers

These vines can grow in shade

My wife gets sleepy if she eats a handful of the gorgeous flowers fresh from the vine

Although they are native and adapted to the moist Eastern deciduous forests