Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Perennial Sand Bean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-46-002:
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Perennial Sand Bean, Perennial Wild Bean, Pink Wild Bean, Pink Fuzzy-Bean
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stum2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0408j_29
August Oconee County SC
Leaflets not lobed; terminal leaflet 0.3-2.0 cm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_umbellata
September
Keel petal with a prominent, erect, thick-based and slightly curved beak, per Phylogenetic Systematics of Strophostyles (Fabaceae) (Riley-Hulting, 2004).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-46-002:
Strophostyles umbellata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
1471
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in dry sandy or rocky woodlands, disturbed 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.
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaves have petioles.
Leaflets have petiolules.
Leaves are subtended by stipules.
Leaflets are subtended by stipels.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed campanulate calyx (upper lobes united, so it appears 4-lobed)
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p182
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p395
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p110
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p144
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p342
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p041
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p140
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p177
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p078