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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Virginia Goat's Rue from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-34-001:
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cracca virginiana
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings
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_crvi7_001_lvd
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Bobbie L Holt blh1491_a
May Anderson County SC
Carolina Wild Native Plant Nursery
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JK Marlow jkm180504_1668
May Meriwether-Talbot Counties GA
Sprewell Bluff WMA
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_virginiana_goatsrue
May
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JK Marlow jkm070609_010
June Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm100606_012
June Union County SC
An erect unbranched plant covered with silky white hairs. Leaves odd-pinnate, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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JK Marlow jkm100606_065
June Laurens County? SC
Densely hairy, dehiscent legumes, 2.5-3" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm100606_079
June Greenville County
Chandler Heritage Preserve
Flowers pea-like: the standard pale yellow to cream, the wings pink, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm100606_080
June Greenville County
Chandler Heritage Preserve
Calyx usually densely pillose or villous, occasionally strigose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm210626_1653
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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Keith Bradley kab_t_virginiana_0193
June Caldwell County NC
Pisgah National Forest
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Keith Bradley kab_t_virginiana_0199
June Caldwell County NC
Pisgah National Forest
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_virginiana_6
August
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JK Marlow jkm0410p_07
October Oconee County SC
Roadside
Somebody needs to tell this plant that it's October.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-34-001:
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cracca virginiana
1491
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry or dryish pinelands, xeric and/or rocky oak and oak-pine woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, shale barrens and other barrens, dry roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: (9)13-23(35) leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Standard - cream; wings & keel - pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Stamens monadelphous
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p086
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p186
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p076
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p249
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p066
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p055
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p391
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p343
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p166
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p035
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p102
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p130
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p141
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p178
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p449
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p087
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p079