3583

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: South America
Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare, planted on roadsides and spreading

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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 4 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
2-lipped 5-lobed calyx (the upper lip four united lobes)
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, monadelphous
Flowers in leaf axils

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):
Arachis glabrata   FAMILY Fabaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arachis glabrata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Arachis prostrata