FAB AC K A K 





Spiraea Spiraea, M< 



(Gr. spiraea, meadowBwi 



1. Flowers white, in simple umbels 



2. Flowers pink 



a. Flowers in umbels or corymbs 



b. Flowers in dense pai 





* I !r. poterion, 

 : of 7-19 small leaflets ; flowers green 



Poterium Burnel 



drinking i up fi im I 

 purplish, in 



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Fabaceae — Pea Family 



Herbs <>r woody plants, with alternate usuallj com] 

 petals typically 5, and of three different forms, standard, win,: 

 Kss similar, star.. ens 5-many, pistil single, simple, fruil tj 

 flower apocarpous, apopetalous, hypogynous, irregular. 



1. Leaves compound 



a. Leaflets digitate or apparently so, 2 IS 



(1) Leaflets _' 



(2) Leaflets more than 3 



(3) Leaflets 3 



(a) Leaflets toothed 



\. Flowers in slender racemes 

 y. Flowers in spikes or heads 



(x) Flowers blue or yellow 



(y) Flowers red or white 



(b) Leaflets entire 



x. Fruit a legume; mostly climbers 



(x) Calyx 5-toothed; cultivated 



(y) Calyx 4-tOOthed ; native 

 y. Fruit a loment or achene ; i 



(x) Fruit a 1 -seeded achene 



(y) Fruit a loment with 2-several 



b. Leaflets pinnate, 4 many, or when fewer, 



(1) Climbers or twiners, usually with tendrils 



(a) Leaves odd-pinnate; flowers brown-purple 



(b) Leaves even-pinnate, tendril-bearing as a rub' 

 x. Style bearded down one face 



y. Style bearded at tip only 



(2) Erect herbs; tendrils mere remnants when pi 



(a) Leaflets 4; flower- yellow; culti 



(b) Leaflets 5 or more 



x. Leaves sensitive, closing and di 

 y. Leaves not sensitive to touch 

 (x) Flowers pea-like 



111. Leaflets 2-14 



n. Leaflets 15-21 



(v) l'dowers not pea-like 

 m. Flowers tiny, 4 6 n 

 (m) Stamens 5 

 (n) Stamens 10 

 n. Flowei - 2 I cm. wide, yell. 



2. Leaves simple; flowers yellow; shrubby 







Lupinus— Lupine 



, us, 

 Leaflets 13-15, lanceolate; flowers bin 

















O. H. HILL. LIBRARY 



North Carolina State College 



