Hedysarum
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Bean's Trees and Shrubs
Hedysarum
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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'Hedysarum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Family
- Leguminosae
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).