Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Doubleform 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 difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-003:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rhynchosia tomentosa
COMMON NAME:
Doubleform Snoutbean
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Look for it in sandhills, per Weakley's Flora
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets (lowermost leaves usually have 1)
Mostly alternate
Stipules are persistent.
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
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