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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Flemingia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Flemingia (John Fleming, Pres. Medical Board of Bengal; author of "A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs," 1810). Leguminosae. Of this genus, two shrubs are cultivated in southern California and southern Florida. Herbs, sub-shrubs or shrubs of the Old World tropics, erect, prostrate or twining: lvs. mostly with 3 digitate lfts., rarely 1; stipules striate, often caducous: fls. papilionaceous, red or purple and mixed with yellow, in crowded racemes or panicles, or sometimes solitary; standard obovate or orbicular, auricled at base; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, often adhering to the incurved or nearly straight keel; stamens 9 and 1: pod short, oblique, swollen, 2-valved.—Species above 20, mostly of Trop. Asia, but occurring also in Trop. Afr. and to the Philippines. Allied to Dalbergia and Rhynchosia. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 Flemingia (John Fleming, Pres. Medical Board of Bengal; author of "A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs," 1810). Leguminosae. Of this genus, two shrubs are cultivated in southern California and southern Florida.
 Herbs, sub-shrubs or shrubs of the Old World tropics, erect, prostrate or twining: lvs. mostly with 3 digitate lfts., rarely 1; stipules striate, often caducous: fls. papilionaceous, red or purple and mixed with yellow, in crowded racemes or panicles, or sometimes solitary; standard obovate or orbicular, auricled at base; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, often adhering to the incurved or nearly straight keel; stamens 9 and 1: pod short, oblique, swollen, 2-valved.—Species above 20, mostly of Trop. Asia, but occurring also in Trop. Afr. and to the Philippines. Allied to Dalbergia and Rhynchosia.
-Floating heart: Limnanthemum.
-Floerkea Douglash: Limnanthea.
-Flora’s paint brush: A common name for Emilia flammea.
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