小冠花属豆科多年生植物。在美国,小冠花大量种植于公路铁路路基上作为边坡防护之用,也用于河堤湖泊的岸坡防护和园林牧场的水土保持与环境绿化。美国友人韩丁、阳早于1974、1979年先后由美国引进,并向陕西农科院土肥所介绍了小冠花的坡面防护性能。陕西省农牧厅为了推广使用特组织了省、地、县农牧水保、公路、铁路、园林、环保、厂矿等15 Small crown of legume perennials. In the United States, small crown flowers planted in large quantities on the road and railway embankment as a slope protection purposes, also used for bank protection of river banks and garden ranch soil and water conservation and environmental greening. American friends Han Ding, Yang as early as 1974, 1979 has introduced by the United States, and introduced to the soil and fertilizer of Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences slope protection performance. Shaanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in order to promote the use of special organizations in the provinces, prefectures and counties, animal husbandry and aquaculture, roads, railways, gardens, environmental protection, factories and mines and other 15