Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Doubleform Snoutbean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-003:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia tomentosa
COMMON NAME:
Doubleform Snoutbean
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_doto_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_rhynchosia_difformis2
June Dare County NC
A prostrate or twining herbaceous vine with an angled, tawny, hairy stem, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_rhynchosia_difformis3
June Dare County NC
This vine's 3-foliate leaves are similar to those of the erect R. tomentosa, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-003:
Rhynchosia difformis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhynchosia tomentosa
3060
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets (lowermost leaves usually have 1)
Mostly alternate
Stipules are persistent.
No stipels
FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
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 p281
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p229
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p040