Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Spiked Hoary-pea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Tephrosia spicata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tephrosia spicata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-34-003:
Tephrosia spicata
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cracca spicata
COMMON NAME:
Spiked Hoary-pea, Brown-hair Tephrosia, Tawny Goat's Rue
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_crsp7_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_tephrosia_spicata_3_s
March
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JK Marlow jkm0506q_07b
June Greenville County SC
Roadside
Flowers white at first, soon turning pink, then reddish purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm100624_035
June Greenville County SC
Plants conspicuously tawny long-pilose with rusty brown hairs, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm100624_039
June Greenville County SC
Legume 3-5cm long, 4-6mm broad, sparesly to moderately pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm100624_041
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120623_118b
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Calyx 6-7mm long, sparsely to more typically dense pilose or villous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120623_118c
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120623_125
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Leaflets 9-17, oblong-obovate to obovate or elliptic, 1-2.7(3.7)cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160611_010
June McCormick County SC
Few-flowered racemes at the ends of long slender axillary or terminal stalks, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm170624_349
June Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow s060603_a
June SC
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JK Marlow jkm0507l_09
July Oconee County SC
Flowers initially white, turning overnight to pink and maroon, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm090704_011
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm090704_014
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow s050727_b
July Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow s050727_c
July Greenville County SC
Roadside
Plant ascending to sprawling, rusty hairy. Leaflets w a sharp-pointed tip, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs