Leguminosae The plant family Leguminosae contains just under a twelfth of the world's flowering plants.
Many species are important as crop plants and as sources of pharmaceutical products .
They are responsible for much of the world's soil fertility through nitrogen fixation. We have assembled a gallery of paintings and drawings of European species in the legume tribe Vicieae. This page was designed and prepared by Richard White and last edited on 21st March 1996. All rights reserved. Any views expressed in these pages are not necessarily those of the University of Southampton.