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American groundnut vine, with bright green compound leaves, climbing a galvanized pipe and barbed-wire fence in a backyard.

The American Groundnut

The vine I kept ripping out of the fence row turned out to be hopniss — the American groundnut — a nitrogen-fixing native with tubers richer than a potato. A few thoughts on the useful things we fight without knowing it.

JUNE 2026 •ESSAY

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The National Park in your Backyard

Lately, on the trail

The American Groundnut

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