Hedysarum

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hedysarum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedysarum/). Accessed 2022-11-27.

Family

Leguminosae

Species in genus

Hedysarum multijugum

Glossary

axillary: Situated in an axil.
imparipinnate: Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hedysarum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedysarum/). Accessed 2022-11-27.

A genus of about 150 species of annual and perennial plants, the latter mostly herbaceous, natives of the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Leaves imparipinnate; flowers in axillary racemes; pods flat, subdivided into segments, each with one seed (often reduced to a single segment in the species described here).

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