Hippocrepis

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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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