Erinacea
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Erinacea (Latin, erinaceus, hedgehog, alluding to the spiny nature of the plant). Leguminosae. A low almost leafless shrub forming dense spiny tufta covered in spring with numerous blue flowers. Deciduous, very spiny: lvs. simple or ternate, pubescent, only present at the end of young branchlets: fls. 1-3, axillary toward the end of the branchlets; calyx tubular, with 5 short teeth, inflated after flowering: petals narrow, long-clawed, claws of the wings and keel adnate to the staminal tube; standard ovate, slightly auriculate at the base: stamens connate: pod oblong, glandular-hairy, 2-valved, 4-6-eeeded.—One species in S. W. Eu. Not hardy N.; likes limestone soil and a sunny position, best adapted to be planted in rockeries. Prop, by seeds.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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