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2745

Shrub
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in mountain woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 9-13 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Legume

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Robinia hispida var. rosea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Robinia hispida var. rosea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-32-007:
 Robinia boyntonii   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Boynton's Locust

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image of Robinia hispida var. rosea, Boynton's Locust

Ron Lance    rwl_boyntonii

May        

image of Robinia hispida var. rosea, Boynton's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm080913_044

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Robinia hispida var. rosea, Boynton's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm080913_052

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Calyx lobes ovate or lance-ovate, shorter than the calyx tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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image of Robinia hispida var. rosea, Boynton's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm080913_054

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Leaflets 9-13, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 2-4cm long, 1-2cm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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