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
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Amphicarpaea bracteata + FAMILY Fabaceae
American Hog-peanut
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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JK Marlow jkm140816_747
August Jackson County NC
High Hampton Inn
Leaflets ovate to rhombic-ovate, the lateral often assymmetrical, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
JK Marlow jkm140906_252
September Swain County NC
Racemes from upper axils nod on slender peduncles mostly 1-6cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Roxanna Martin rlm9109_024
September Spartanburg County SC
Racemes of 1-17 petaliferous flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_bracteata
September
Calyx narrowly campanulate, tube 4-6mm long, upper 2 lobes united or nearly so, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm061029_075
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Legume from petaliferous flowers is flattened, olong-linear, 1.5-4cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.