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
...Moist
...Dry
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
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 p184
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p058
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p168
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p036
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p127
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p140
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p178
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p080
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p065
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