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Hoffmannseggia
Also called Rushpeas
Hoffmannseggia is a genus of pod-bearing herbs and subshrubs in the pea family, known as rushpeas, native to the Americas from the western United States to southern South America. Most species are hardy, drought-tolerant plants of open, dry habitats.
Hoffmannseggia is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, known generally as rushpeas. These are pod-bearing herbs and subshrubs native to the Americas. In North America they range from California and Nebraska to southern Mexico, and from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to southern Argentina and Chile in South America.
The generic name honors Johann Centurius, Count of Hoffmannsegg, a nineteenth-century German nobleman and botanist.
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