Pakistan plant finder

Filtered by Pakistan's five agro-ecological zones.

24 plant profiles, narrowed to the scale Pakistan growers actually use — not a generic zone map relabelled.

Showing 24 of 24 plants

PIONEER · GROUNDCOVER

Black Medick(maina)

Medicago lupulina

USDA 3-9

nitrogen fixing · fodder · mulch

PIONEER · GRASS

Blue Panic Grass(gharam / ghirib)

Panicum antidotale

USDA 9-12

fodder · mulch · windbreak

PIONEER · CLIMBER

Butterfly Pea(aprajita)

Clitoria ternatea

USDA 10-12

medicinal · fodder · nitrogen fixing

PIONEER · SHRUB

Camel Thorn(jawasa / unt katara)

Alhagi maurorum

USDA 6-11

fodder · nitrogen fixing · medicinal

PIONEER · TREE

Corky Coral Tree(gul nashtar)

Erythrina suberosa

USDA 9-11

fodder · nitrogen fixing · medicinal

PIONEER · TREE

Faidherbia apple-ring acacia

Faidherbia albida

USDA 9-11

fodder · nitrogen fixing · mulch · fuel · windbreak

Field Bindweed (Hiran Khuri) (Convolvulus arvensis)

PIONEER · GROUNDCOVER

Field Bindweed (Hiran Khuri)(lehli / hiran-khuri)

Convolvulus arvensis

USDA 4-10

fodder · medicinal · mulch

PIONEER · SHRUB

Five-leaved chaste tree

Vitex negundo

USDA 6-11

medicinal · mulch

PIONEER · SHRUB

Flemingia support shrub

Flemingia macrophylla

USDA 9-12

mulch · nitrogen fixing · windbreak · fuel

PIONEER · SHRUB

Fourwing Saltbush

Atriplex canescens

USDA 4-9

fodder · windbreak · mulch

PIONEER · CLIMBER

Hyacinth Bean(sem)

Lablab purpureus

USDA 10-11

food · fodder · nitrogen fixing

PIONEER · CLIMBER

Indian Kudzu(sural)

Pueraria tuberosa

USDA 8-11

medicinal · fodder · nitrogen fixing

Jwarancusa Lemongrass (Cymbopogon jwarancusa)

PIONEER · GRASS

Jwarancusa Lemongrass(khavi)

Cymbopogon jwarancusa

USDA 9-11

medicinal · mulch

PIONEER · TREE

Leucaena

Leucaena leucocephala

USDA 9-11

fodder · nitrogen fixing · fuel · mulch

PIONEER · GROUNDCOVER

Licorice(mulethi)

Glycyrrhiza glabra

USDA 6-10

medicinal · nitrogen fixing · mulch

PIONEER · CLIMBER

Money plant(money plant)

Epipremnum aureum

USDA 10-12

medicinal

PIONEER · TREE

Quickstick(gliricidia)

Gliricidia sepium

USDA 10-12

fodder · nitrogen fixing · fuel · mulch

PIONEER · GROUNDCOVER

Red Clover(shaftal)

Trifolium pratense

USDA 3-9

nitrogen fixing · fodder

PIONEER · CLIMBER

Rosary Pea(ratti)

Abrus precatorius

USDA 10-12

medicinal · nitrogen fixing

PIONEER · GROUNDCOVER

Shrubby Pencil Flower (Wild Stylo)

Stylosanthes fruticosa

USDA 9-11

nitrogen fixing · fodder · mulch

PIONEER · SHRUB

Shrubby Sea-Blite(lani / kharo lana)

Suaeda fruticosa

USDA 6-10

fodder · food · fuel

PIONEER · TREE

Siris(siris)

Albizia lebbeck

USDA 9-11

fodder · timber · nitrogen fixing · windbreak

Stocks’ Saltwort (Lana) (Haloxylon stocksii)

PIONEER · SHRUB

Stocks’ Saltwort (Lana)(lana)

Haloxylon stocksii

USDA 9-11

fodder · fuel · windbreak

Wild Indigo (Oblong-Leaf Indigo) (Indigofera oblongifolia)

PIONEER · SHRUB

Wild Indigo (Oblong-Leaf Indigo)(jhil / kathi)

Indigofera oblongifolia

USDA 10-11

nitrogen fixing · fodder · mulch

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