...Variable
...Dry
You may find it helpful to read The Genus Baptisia in South Carolina by Bill Stringer.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-09-009:
Baptisia alba
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo, Spiked Wild Indigo
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JK Marlow jkm060506_138
May Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles 5-10(20)mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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JK Marlow jkm060513_006
May Pickens County SC
Roadside
Flowering pedicels 3-10mm long; calyx 4.5-6.5mm long; corolla 13-16(18)mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090529_003
May Pickens County SC
Utility right-of-way
B. albescens & B. alba have been nomenclaturally confused, per Weakley's Flora.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbalbescens_762
May
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_albescens_3
May
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JK Marlow jkm0406k_04
June Oconee County SC
Fruits cylindric, about 3x long as wide, yellowish-brown when mature, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0406k_05
June Oconee County SC
Pods cylindrical, brown, not over 11mm thick, divergent to erect, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm0506h_23
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm070609_026
June Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm070609_037
June Pickens County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_albescens_14
June
Flowering pedicels subtended by caducous bracts [here already gone] 1-2mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0507l_36
July Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060723_380
July Pickens County SC
Utility right-of-way
Fruits distinctive in being cylindric & yellowish-brown (not black), per Weakley's Flora.
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Bill Stringer wcsbaptisia_albescens
July
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JK Marlow jkm0410p_17
October Oconee County SC