Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Hippocrepis comosa L.


FABACEAE Family selection - Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Hippocrepis comosa L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 744 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Horseshoe vetch
en English name: horseshoe-vetch
Italian name: Sferracavallo comune

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Hippocrepis
Species:


Page counter: 1477 ( AVG: 222.06 / 291.169 )



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Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino - Villorba (TV)

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino - Villorba (TV)

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino - Villorba (TV)

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Hippocrepis comosa

Hippocrepis comosa
Hippocrepis comosa


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
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Distributional map for Hippocrepis comosa L.
Map for Hippocrepis comosa L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Hippocrepis glauca Ten. [988]
2) Hippocrepis multisiliquosa L. [302]
3) Hippocrepis unisiliquosa L. [1712]
4) Hippophae rhamnoides L. [1664]
5) Hippuris tetraphylla L. f. [302]
6) Hirculus platysepalus (Trautv.) W.A. Weber ssp. crandallii (Gandog.) W.A. Weber [146]
7) Hirschfeldia incana (L.) Lagr.-Foss. [2194]
8) Hoffmania lanceolata Griseb. [90]
9) Hoffmannseggia densiflora Benth. var. demissa (A. Gray) Fisher [170]
10) Hoita hallii Rydb. [92]

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