Leguminosae

• “Though Peas and Beans are sometimes said to be in the Pea and Bean Family, and the word Leguminosae is used as well to name the family.”

  translation for peas & greenbeans (nfm)

• “However, most of the cover crops belong to the family of plants known as Leguminosae (beans).”

  Chapter 20

• “The Leguminosae are my greatest opposers: yet if I were to trust to observations on insects made during many years, I should fully expect crosses to take place in them; but I cannot find that our garden varieties ever cross each other.”

  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

• “Plant families such as Leguminosae, Amaryllidaceae and Compositae are noted for high levels of these compounds.”

  Chapter 4

• “Some of the distinctive plants in the forests include the flamboyant tree, Delonix regia (family Leguminosae), and several species of baobabs (Adansonia, family Bombacaceae).”

  Madagascar dry deciduous forests

• “In the scrub layer, there is a diversity of liana species of the Asclepiadaceae family and shrubs of the Leguminosae and Rubiaceae families.”

  Madagascar dry deciduous forests

• “The plant families represented in the canopy are Leguminosae, Bignoniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Sapindaceae, and Anacardiaceae.”

  Madagascar dry deciduous forests

• “Only the sunflower (Asteraceae, or Compositae), legume (Fabaceae, or Leguminosae), and orchid (Orchidaceae) families are larger.”

  Grasses

• “Ephedraceae, Labiatae, Gramineae, Compositae, and Leguminosae make up the understory shrubs and perennial grass of this ecoregion.”

  Sulaiman Range alpine meadows

• “The most diverse families are the Leguminosae (51), Asteraceae (36), Poaceae (24) and Euphorbiacea (18).”

  Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub

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