Previously, I wrote about the interesting and important legume or pea family of plants. Plants in this family produce seeds in “pods” like beans or peas, most are capable of “fixing” nitrogen from the air to use by the plant, and most have compound leaves (leaves made up of numerous smaller leaflets frequently arranged in pairs on opposite sides along a stem). Here are a number of the more common Hill Country native trees and shrubs that belong to that family. There are many speci ...