Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Twining Snoutbean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia tomentosa var. tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-004:
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia erecta
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia intermedia
COMMON NAME:
Twining Snoutbean, Erect Snoutbean
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_doer2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm100606_056
June Union County SC
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JK Marlow jkm100606_058
June Union County SC
Leaves mostly 3-parted w 1-2" leaflets, tho lowermost may be unifoliolate, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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JK Marlow jkm100606_060
June Union County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_r_tomentosa
June
Flowers borne in clusters, terminating branches or arising from leaf axils, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_r_tomentosa_1
June
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Bill Stringer wcsrhynchosia_tomentosa
June
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Bill Stringer wcsrhynchosiatomentosa_1
June
Leaflets are densely hairy beneath and feel like velvet, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia tomentosa var. tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-004:
Rhynchosia tomentosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia erecta
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia intermedia
1243
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in NC Mountains)
Look for it in xeric woodlands and forests, sandhills, edges, open areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules soon deciduous.
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
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 p158
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p281
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p229
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p040
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p080
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p064