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Psoralea spissa

Psoralea spissa
Photo: Nick Helme, South Africa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Cape Prov.
Climate
subtropical

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Psoralea spissa is a dense, tangled, much branched shrub of up to 185 cm (73 in) high that is assigned to the Pea family. It has dull green, clover-like leaves and white, pea-like flowers with a streaky, triangular, purple nectar guide. The species grows in renosterveld in the central mountains of the Western Cape province of South Africa. This species flowers in July and August.

Other Psoralea plants

Psoralea curtisiae · Grimolobium holosericeum · Psoralea accrescens · Blue Fountain Pea Tree · Waterfall Fountainbush · Psoralea dreweae · Fascicled Fountainbush · Psoralea lucens · Psoralea nitens · Psoralea pilifera · Fountain bush · Psoralea saxosa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psoralea spissa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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