Crotalaria retusa L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Crotalaria retusa L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Annual, appressed-pubescent, usually branched, 4-10 dm. high. Stipules minute or wanting; leaves simple, oblanceolate, spatulate or oblong, shortpetioled, 4-8 cm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, appressed-pubescent beneath; racemes terminal, peduncled, loosely several-many-flowered, 2 dm. long or less; pedicels 6-10 mm. long; calyx 2-lipped, about 10 mm. long; petals nearly twice as long as the calyx, yellow, the standard variegated; pod oblong, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. thick, short-beaked, glabrous.

  • Distribution

    Waste and cultivated land, New Providence and Great Exuma : Florida ; Bermuda ; West Indies; continental tropical America. Naturalized from the Old World. Large Yellow Rattlebox.

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