The pea family ( Leguminosae or Fabaceae ) is known for fix nitrogen . Crops are rotated with legume to reestablish N to the grease . Some members of the pea household are toxic while others are edible . Edible plants include peanuts ( Arachis hypogea ) , garbanzo edible bean ( Cicer arietinim ) , soybeans ( Glycine max ) , Lens culinaris ( Lens culinaris ) , bean ( Phaseolus ) , peas ( Pisum sativum ) , licorice ( Glycyrrhiza ) and jicama . animate being foods let in alfalfa , dulcet clover , trefoil , vetch and lupines . Some type of wood come from the pea folk such as Rosewood ( Dalbergia ) , Mesquite ( Prospis ) and Robinia ( Locust ) .
Clovers
Clovers are members of the pea family . Species include genus Trifolium , dalea and melilot . Flower colors include white , pink , yellow and purple . Plant types include herbs and forbs . Some forms of clover are weed . Other forms of clover , like red clover , are used for medicinal purposes to allay inflammation .
Milkvetch
Milkvetch , or Astragalus , plants admit forbs and herbaceous plant . The bloom are yellow , purple or white . Milkvetch plants are not think weed . Milkvetch is used in Formosan medicine . The root are used in soup and tea leaf and combine with other herbs like ginseng and licorice .
Lupines
lupine are herbs or shrubs . Lupines include mintage with yellow , pink , blue or snowy flowers . Plants with blue bloom are known as buffalo clover . Species let in corniculatus or caudatus . Some species are poisonous to livestock . Lupine ordinarily spring up at the edges of and in the woods .
Peavines
Lathyrus or Peavines are the only member of the pea family that are vine . These plants have common name such as sweet pea plant , ageless pea , few - bloom peavine and bushy peavine . Sweet pea plant are oft grown by gardener and produce peas in seedpod . flower are pinkish , purple or white . The source of this works are toxic in large quantities .
Plants Of The Pea Family With Showy Flowers
The pea family contains some very big flora touch Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - same ratio . In USDA zone 7 through 10 , this redbud tree gain up to 16 foot tall and wide , attract butterflies and birds to the yard . Shrubs are ordinarily smaller than trees , but some can reach Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree altitude . African scurf pea ( Psoralea pinnata ) , in USDA flora hardiness zone 9 through 11 , produce green feathery leave of absence with lavender - reddish blue and white flowers covering the bush in late spring . The purplish - pink butterfly - shaped blossoms last from natural spring through summertime . This summertime bloomer is available in white , pink or purple in USDA industrial plant hardiness zones 4 through 9 .
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