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Legumes
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Legume characteristics:
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distinct showy flowers
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banner, wings and keel petals
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broad leaves typically compound
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pinnate or trifoliate
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feather-like or netted leaf veins
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legumes included here are non-woody
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taproots
Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
Coming soon...
Illinois Bundleflower
Desmanthus illinoensis
Leadplant
Amorpha canescens
Longbract Wild Indigo
Baptisia bracteata
Low Hop Clover
Trifolium campestre
Prairie Acacia
Acacia angustissima
Purple Prairie Clover
Delea purpurea
Roundhead Lespedeza
Lespedeza capitata
Scurfpea
Psoralidium tenuiflorum
Sericea Lespedeza
Lespedeza cuneata
Coming soon...
Slender Dalea
Dalea enneandra
Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
Coming soon...
Tephrosia
Tephrosia virginiana
Tickclover (sessile-leaf)
Desmodium sessilifolium
Trailing Wildbean
Strophostyles helvula
White Clover
Trifolium repens
Wild Indigo (Blue)
Baptisia australis
Coming soon...
Wooly Loco
Astragalus mollissimus
Yellow Neptune
Neptunia lutea
Yellow Sweet Clover
Melilotus officinalis
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