Erythrina herbacea
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Erythrina herbacea, Linn. Perennial: sts. several and herbaceous, from a very thick root, 2—4 ft. high, the flowering ones nearly leafless: lfts. 3, ovate to hastate; petioles long, more or less prickly: fls. 2 in. long and very slender, deep scarlet, in loose racemes 1-2 ft. long: seeds scarlet. N. C. to Texas and W. Indies. Common on Gulf coast of Ala. and Miss. B.M. 877. E. Bidwillii, Lindl., is a beautiful hybrid of this species and E. Crista-galli (the latter the pollen parent), with herbaceous shoots and an ascending vexillum. B.R. 33:9. H.F. 2:48. CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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