Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Twining Snoutbean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia tomentosa var. tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-004:
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rhynchosia erecta
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rhynchosia intermedia
COMMON NAME:
Twining Snoutbean, Erect Snoutbean
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Look for it in xeric woodlands and forests, sandhills, edges, open areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in NC Mountains)
...Dry
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules soon deciduous.
No stipels
FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p193
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p158
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p281
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p040
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p080
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p064
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