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2751

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA, uncommon in NC-SC, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Look for it in sandhills. This uncommon species tends to occur as very widely scattered individuals in sandhill habitats, rarely with more than a few seen at a time, per Weakley's Flora

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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

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Pediomelum canescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pediomelum canescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-005:
 Psoralea canescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Buckroot, Eastern Prairie-turnip, Hoary Scurfpea

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image of Pediomelum canescens, Buckroot, Eastern Prairie-turnip, Hoary Scurfpea

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.

image of Pediomelum canescens, Buckroot, Eastern Prairie-turnip, Hoary Scurfpea

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.