Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pediomelum canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Buckroot from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Because of its habit, that of a very bushy, tumbleweed-like plant, it superficially most closely resembles various Baptisia species, but it is easily separated by its rather dense and soft pubescence (our Baptisia are all glabrous or rather inconspicuously puberulent, except the very unifoliolate B. arachnifera, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pediomelum canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pediomelum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Pediomelum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-005:
Psoralea canescens FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pediomelum canescens
COMMON NAME:
Buckroot, Eastern Prairie-turnip, Hoary Scurfpea, Pineland-turnip
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_pediomelum_canescens5
May Scotland County NC
Flowers in 1-2" racemes, 4-8 per raceme. The calyx is densely downy, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_pediomelum_canescens2
July Scotland County NC
Stem to 1m tall, pubescent, much-branched to form a rounded crown, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pediomelum canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pediomelum canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pediomelum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Pediomelum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-005:
Psoralea canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pediomelum canescens
2751
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolinas)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: (1)3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Dull blue-violet, the standard straw-colored on its upper surface
5-lobed persistant calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10(9) stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p2299
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p415
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p202
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p091
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