Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.

i. Cracca Virginiana L.
Gracca Virginiana L. Sp. PI. 752 (1753).
Galega Virginiana L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2: 1062 (1763).
Tefthrosia Virginiana Pers. Syn. 2: 329 (1807).
Perennial from a woody base and long, tough, ligneous root,
villous-pubescent or canescent throughout. Stems growing in
patches, simple, erect, 3—6 dm. high, angled and striate ; leaves
elliptical or linear-oblong in outline, 6—10 cm. or more long; sub-
Sessile; stipules caducous; leaflets ti—21, 1-3 cm. long, linear-
oblong or elliptical, Obtuse or acutish, apiculate, glabrous or nearly
so above, siiky-villous beneath,often becoming glabrate with age;
raceme terminal, oblong, sessile; pedicels 5-10 mm. long; calyx
silky-villous, the teeth acuminate, cuspidate, mostly longer than
the tube; corolla cream-colored, streaked with purple or pink
vexillum pubescent on the outer surface; legume 3-5 cm. long,
4-5 dim. wide, straight or somewhat falcate, villous; seeds 4-8
oblong-ovoid, rounded or truncate at the ends, brownish, mottled
with black.
I Dry sandy soil, throughout the eastern half of the United
States and Canada to North Mexico.	1
Original locality: Virginia, Canada.
__Type in Herb, Linn.	. ________....
TEPHROSIA VIRGINIANA (L.) PERS.
C E. WOOD, JR. 1948
Examined for
NORTH AMERICAN FLORX
PLANTS OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
PLANTS OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.
COLLE0TED IN THEVlQINITY OF MARION, 8MYTHCOUNTY,
by N. L. and Elizabeth G. Britton and Anna M. Vail.
OOLLECTED IN THE VICINITY OF NORFOLK, NORFOLK CO.
By N. L. and Elizabeth Q. Britton and Anna M. Vail,
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NEWYOR^ B0TAN|cal GARDEN
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