Hippocrepis
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Hippocrepis, (from the Greek for horse and shoe, in reference to the shape of the pod). Leguminosae. Herbs, subshrubs or rarely shrubs, suitable for culture in the alpine garden. Leaves imparipinnate; lfts. entire, exstipellate; petioles rarely spinescent, persistent: fls. yellow, nodding, in racemes or axillary pedunculate spikes; ovary sessile, 1-2-ovuled; style filiform: pod flattened, indehiscent valves nearly horse-shoe-shaped.—Twelve species in Medit. region, Canary Isls., and 1 as far north as S. Scotland. Of easy cult, in ordinary garden soil. Prop, by division of the root or by seeds.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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