Hedysarum
Sign in to saveHedysarum (sweetvetch) is a genus of the botanical family Fabaceae, consisting of about 200 species of annual or perennial herbs found in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: on Hedysarum and Onobrychis, with a few minor segregates. Choi &
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,054
- With media
- 763
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- A, GH, IBUNAM, USF, VT, CAS
- Recorded in
- China, United States, Japan, Canada, Pakistan, Indonesia, Russia
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Hedysarum (sweetvetch) is a genus of the botanical family Fabaceae, consisting of about 200 species of annual or perennial herbs found in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
==Description== left|thumb|Hedysarum occidentale is a herbaceous subalpine to alpine species of western North America. Species within genus Hedysarum may be herbaceous plants or deciduous shrubs. They have odd-pinnate leaves, with entire leaflets (no notches or indentations). These leaves resemble the leaves of sweet peas. The stipules may be free or connate, and stipels (secondary stipules) are absent.
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