Biology 21 Field Botany
Plant Families
Fabaceae
Pea Family
herbs, shrubs, trees
leaves:
usually compound,
alternate
, and with stipules
inflorescence:
flowers:
either
bilaterally
or
radially
symmmetric
fruit:
legume
representative species
Lupinus
lupines
Lupinus bicolor
small flowered lupine
Lupinus nanus
sky lupine
Lotus
Vicia angustifolia
vetch
Lathyrus
wild pea
Trifolium dubium
hop clover
Cercis occidentalis
western redbud
Acacia
Prosopis
mesquite
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