Chapter 10. Fabaceae: The pea family

Chapter 10. fabaceae : The pea family The pea family : fabaceae fabaceae (Pea family ). General physiognomy. Herbs, shrubs or trees with usually compound leaves; flowers variable in size and shape, mostly similar to the sweet-pea or mesquite; the fruit always a legume (a one-carpeled, beanlike, seed pod). Vegetative morphology. Annuals, perennials , shrubs , and small trees with nitrogen-fixing nodules on the roots, and alternate, often compound leaves with stipules. Stipules are sometimes modified into glands or spines. Leaves may be trifoliate, palmately compound, pinnately compound, or divaricately bifoliate ( , having two folioles partially fused along the central vein).

Annuals, perennials, shrubs, and small trees with nitrogen-fixing nodules on the roots, and alternate, often compound leaves with stipules. Stipules are sometimes modified into ... the lateral wind petals guide insects to the center of the flower, and the two lower keel petals form the landing surface for arriving pollinators (paloverde ...

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  Annual, Family, Tree, Insect, Shrubs, Perennials, Fabaceae

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