3125

Forb
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Rare (an endemic)

Look for it in sandhills, pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Unifoliolate (theoretically compound but having only 1 leaflet and appearing simple)
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bluish-purple
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed persistant calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10(9) stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Brown/Black
Legume

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p054
• Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p243

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Orbexilum virgatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum virgatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Orbexilum virgatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Psoralea virgata