Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about American Hog-peanut 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 (5/21/15):
Amphicarpaea bracteata +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amphicarpaea bracteata +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-49-001:
Amphicarpa bracteata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
American Hog-peanut
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Look for it in dry to moist forests, thickets, per Weakley's Flora
Herbaceous vine
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Petiolule of center leaflet much longer than those of lateral leaflets
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purple/Lilac/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed narrowly campanulate calyx, the upper two sepals united making it 4-lobe
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 p134
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p209
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p110
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p142
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p124
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p161
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p331
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p078
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