Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Coral-bean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erythrina herbacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Erythrina herbacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Erythrina herbacea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-40-001:

Erythrina herbacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Erythrina arborea

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Erythrina herbacea

COMMON NAME:
Coral-bean, Cardinal-spear

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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_660

        

Keith Bradley    kab_e_herbacea_06161

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Keith Bradley    kab_e_herbacea_07108

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Flowers 1-4" long, tubular, borne perpendicular to axis of the erect stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeherbacea_home1

April    Anderson County    SC

An erect, prickly, multistemmed, predominantly herbaceous perennial to 4.5', per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

JK Marlow    jkm090516_076

May    Charleston County    SC

The 3 leaflets are hastate to widely deltate, occasionally prickly beneath, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

 COMPARE leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound

Jerry Bright    jeb_072608_164

July    Berkeley-Charleston Counties    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Legume severely constricted between bright red seeds, splitting at maturity, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

JK Marlow    jkm181110_5791

November    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

JK Marlow    jkm181110_5792

November    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Erythrina herbacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erythrina herbacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Erythrina herbacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Erythrina herbacea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-40-001:
Erythrina herbacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erythrina arborea

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erythrina herbacea