Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Pencil-flower 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):
Stylosanthes biflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylosanthes biflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-25-001:
Stylosanthes biflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Pencil-flower, Sidebeak Pencil-flower
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Look for it in sandhills, dry to moist (but not wet) pine savannas & flatwoods, dry forests, woodlands, woodland borders, glades, barrens, rock outcrops, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Orange-yellow/Whitish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
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Stylosanthes biflora FAMILY Fabaceae
Pencil-flower, Sidebeak Pencil-flower
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Pencil-flower from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm080607_005
June Pickens County SC
Prostrate to erect herb, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm080607_006
June Pickens County SC
Leaflets elliptic to oblanceolate or lanceolate, entire, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow s080607_a
June Pickens County SC
One to several 4-16" stems arise from a stout rootstock, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
JK Marlow jkm190708_9826
July Greenville County SC
The large adnate stipules are distinctive, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
JK Marlow jkm140822_907
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
A yellow-orange, 5-petaled, pea-like flower, with a nearly round standard, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow s080920_a
September Greenville County SC
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.