Scorpiurus (plant)

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Scorpiurus
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Scorpiurus muricatus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Loteae
Genus: Scorpiurus
L. (1753)
Synonyms [1]

ScorpioidesHill (1756), nom. superfl.

Scorpiurus, the scorpion's-tails, [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It contains only two species: [3] Scorpiurus muricatus , which is used in gardening and in salads as a garnish, and Scorpiurus vermiculatus . Both are native to the Mediterranean region and the Near East.

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<i>Robinia</i> Genus of (flowering) plants

Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, tribe Robinieae, native to North America. Commonly known as locusts, they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing 4–25 metres (13–82 ft) tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7–21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes. Many species have thorny shoots, and several have sticky hairs on the shoots.

<i>Lotus tenuis</i> Species of legume

Lotus tenuis is a flowering plant of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western and southern Europe and southwest Asia. Some botanists treat it as a subspecies of Lotus corniculatus, as L. corniculatus subsp. tenuifolius.

<i>Sarcobatus</i> Genus of flowering plants

Sarcobatus is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for S. vermiculatus include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, Sarcobatus has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 recognizes it as the sole genus in the family Sarcobataceae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phaseoleae</span> Tribe of legumes

The plant tribe Phaseoleae is one of the subdivisions of the legume subfamily Faboideae, in the unranked NPAAA clade. This group includes many of the beans cultivated for human and animal food, most importantly from the genera Glycine, Phaseolus, and Vigna.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loteae</span> Tribe of legumes

The tribe Loteae is a subdivision of the plant family Fabaceae, in the Robinioids. These genera are recognized by the USDA:

<i>Baptisia</i> Genus of legumes

Baptisia is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. The species most commonly found in cultivation is B. australis.

<i>Astragalus glycyphyllos</i> Species of legume

Astragalus glycyphyllos is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Europe. It is a perennial herbaceous plant which is sometimes used for tea.

<i>Trifolium dubium</i> Species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae

Trifolium dubium, the lesser trefoil, suckling clover, little hop clover or lesser hop trefoil, is a flowering plant in the pea and clover family Fabaceae. This species is generally accepted as the primary plant to represent the traditional Irish shamrock.

<i>Trifolium striatum</i> Species of legume

Trifolium striatum, the knotted clover, soft trefoil, is a flowering plant species in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.

<i>Trifolium medium</i> Species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae

Trifolium medium, the zigzag clover, is a flowering plant species in the bean family Fabaceae. It is similar in appearance to red clover, Trifolium pratense, but the leaflets are narrower and have no white markings and the narrow stipules are not bristle-pointed. The species is native to Europe from Britain to the Caucasus.

<i>Ornithopus</i> Genus of legumes

Ornithopus, the bird's-foot, is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes six species and one natural hybrid native to Europe, Macaronesia, the eastern Mediterranean, northwest Africa, and Iran, and from southern Brazil to northeastern Argentina in South America.

<i>Scorpiurus muricatus</i> Species of legume

Scorpiurus muricatus, the caterpillar-plant or prickly scorpion's-tail, is an annual leguminous plant native to southern Europe and Greater Syria with tiny pea-like flowers and simple leaves uncharacteristic of a legume. Its contorted, pubescent pods give rise to its common name "prickly caterpillar". Extracts of the species have been found to have allelopathic effects on microbes of the genus Fusarium due to the high concentration of phytoalexins in the plants' tissues.

Myrospermum frutescens, the cercipo, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It ranges from central Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela.

<i>Teramnus</i> Genus of legumes

Teramnus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes eight species of climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the tropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Hainan, Taiwan, and New Guinea. Typical habitats are seasonally-dry tropical bushland and thicket, grassland, wooded grassland, and forest clearings, often in open and dry rocky areas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Millettieae</span> Tribe of legumes

The tribe Millettieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae.

<i>Potentilla basaltica</i> Species of flowering plant

Potentilla basaltica is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names Soldier Meadows cinquefoil and basalt cinquefoil. It is endemic to a small area of the Modoc Plateau and Warner Mountains in northeastern California and northwestern Nevada.

<i>Trigonella caerulea</i> Species of flowering plant

Trigonella caerulea is an annual herb in the family Fabaceae. It is 30–60 cm tall. Its leaves are obovate or lance-shaped, 2–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide and saw-toothed in upper part. Its flower stalks are compact, globular racemes, longer than the leaves. The sepals are twice as short as the corolla, its teeth are equal to the tube. The corolla is 5.5-6.5 mm long and blue. The pods are erect or slightly curved, compressed, 4–5 mm long with beak 2 mm. The seeds are small and elongated. It blossoms in April–May, the seeds ripen in May–June. It is self-pollinated.

<i>Trifolium kingii</i> Species of legume

Trifolium kingii, the King's clover, is a perennial clover in the legume family (Fabaceae)

<i>Ornithopus pinnatus</i> Species of plant

Ornithopus pinnatus, the orange birdsfoot, is a plant in the Fabaceae family. It was first described as Scorpiurus pinnata in 1768 by Philip Miller in The Gardeners Dictionary. In 1907, George Claridge Druce assigned it to the genus Ornithopus.

References

  1. Scorpiurus L. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Scorpiurus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  3. Zieliński, J.: Scorpiurus vermiculatus (Fabaceae) rediscovered in Greece. - Willdenowia 20: 39-41. 1991. ISSN 0511-9618.