Tephrosia hispidula (Michx.) Pers.
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Filed As
Fabaceae
Tephrosia hispidula (Michx.) Pers. -
Identifiers
NY Barcode: 2639922
Occurrence ID: beef12ec-8f2c-424f-ba38-00e76eedde4d
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Fabales
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Family
Fabaceae
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All Determinations
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Location Notes
[US & Canada]
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Distribution
i o. Cracca híSpidula (Michx.) Kuntze. Galega hispidula Michx. FT, Bor. Am. 2: 68 (1803). Tephrosia hispidula Pers. Syn. 2 : 329 (1807). , Tephrosia gracilis Nutt. Gen. 2:119(1818). Tephrosia elegans Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 105 (1834). Cracca hispidula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 174 (1891). Perennial from a slender, woody base, minutely appressed- hispid or glabrate. .Stems 1—3 dm* or more long, decumbent or assurgent, dichotomously branching, straggling, angled; stipules 2-5 mm. long, subulate, sometimes persisting; leaves 3-6 cm. long, linear-oblong in outline, short-petioled, (5-10 mm.) the upper Ones often sessile; leaflets 7-13, elliptical, oval-oblong, or linear-olblong, 8 mm-2' cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, acutish, some- times obtuse, apicülate, reflexed, glabrous above, appressed hirsute with whitish hairs and the veins often turning purplish beneath; peduncles terminal and axillary, ancipital, 5-10 cm. long; flowers solitary or geminate, scattered at the summit of the peduncle, 10- 12 mm. long; bracts 2-5, mm. long, setaceous; calyx-teeth acute . as long as the tube; vexillum minutely pubescent; legume about 4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, straightish or slightly falcate, minutely hispid; seeds 8-12, ovoid or nearly orbicular,,brownish. Low pine lands, sandy soil, stems ascending, rarely prostrate or trailing, feaves and peduncles erect, leaflets reflexed, smaller and more acute than the other species in this section. Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, westward to Louisiana. Original localities’: Virginia, Carolina and Georgia. Type in Herb. Michaux. 02639922 Carroll E. Wood .Jr. Examined for NORTH AMERICAN FLORA NTRAL PENINSULAR FLORIDA, VICINITY OF EU3TI8, LAKE COUNTY, By Geo. V. Nash. May 16*31, 1894. 804. Cracca hispidula (rers.) Kuntze. LEAVES ERECT. FLOWERS WHITE, TURNING RED AT NIGHT. 02639922
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Tephrosia hispidula (Michx.) Pers.