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FABACEAE 



Mclilotus — Sweet Clover 



(Gr. meli, honey, lotus, clover, from the fragrant leaves) 



1. Flowers white; stem 1-3 m. tall; leaflets notched at tip 



2. Flowers yellow; stem J^-l m. tall; leaflets blunt 



Medicago — Alfalfa, Nonesuch 



(Gr. medike, alfalfa, Lat. -ago, like) 



1. Flowers blue; perennial 



2. Flowers yellow ; annual 



a. Leaves oval to rounded ; pod smooth, black, 1-seeded 



b. Leaves cuneate, spotted ; pod spiny, coiled, several seeded 



Trifolium — Clover, Alsike 



(Lat. tri-, three, folium, leaf) 



1. Heads round or nearly so 



a. Flowers red, rarely white 



b. Flowers white to pinkish 



(1) Stems erect or ascending, 3-6 dm. high 



(2) Stems creeping, 1-2 dm. high 



2. Heads oblong to cylindric 



a. Heads 3-6 cm. long; red corolla exceeding calyx 



M. alba 



M. officinalis 



M. saliva: aljalja, 

 lucerne 



M. lupulina: nonesuch 

 M. maculdta: spotted 

 medic 



T. praiense: red c. 



T. hybridum : alsike 

 T. ripens: while c. 



T. incarndtum: crimson 



b. Heads 1-2 cm. long; whitish corolla shorter than calyx 



Phaseolus — Bean 



(Gr. phaselus, string-bean) 



1. Flower clusters longer than the leaf; flowers usually red 



2. Flower clusters shorter than the leaf; flowers not red 



a. Flowers greenish-white ; pod broad ; seeds flat 



b. Flowers white to purplish ; pod narrow ; seeds swollen 



(1) Twining 



(2) Bushy, not twining 



T . aruense: rabbit-foot 



P. multiflorus: scarlet 

 runner 



P. lundtus: lima been 



P. vulgaris: common b. 



kidney b. 

 P. nanus: bush b. 



Falcata — Wild Peanut 



(Lat. falcatus, sickle-like, from the form of the keel) 

 Leaflets ovate ; flowers purplish to white ; pods both aerial and subterranean F. comosa 



Lespedeza — Bush Clover 



(Named for Lespedez, a Spanish governor of Florida) 



1. Flowers in heads, creamy or white; native 



2. Flowers in racemes, red-purple ; cultivated 



L. capitaia 

 L. Siebdldii 



Desmodium — Tick-Trefoil. Telegraph Plant 



(Gr. desmos, bond, chain, from the loment) 

 Leaflets 3 ; end leaflet large, lateral ones small, moving up and down 



Apios — Groundnut 



(Gr. apios, pear, from shape of the tubers) 

 Flowers purple-brown, fragrant ; stems from strings of starchy tubers 



Lathvrus — Sweet Pea. Everlasting Pea 



(Gr. lathyros, a kind of pulse) 



1. Peduncles 2-4-flowered ; flowers fragrant; annual 



2. Peduncles many-flowered; flowers scentless; perennial 



D. gyrans 



A. tuber 6 sa 



L. odordlus 

 L. lati/dlius 



