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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arachis hypogaea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Peanut from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Cultivation of the Peanut was well established in Mesoamerica as far back as 5000 BCE. Read more at "Edible Plants from the Americas".
This remarkable plant bears normal aerial flowers, but following pollination the pedicels elongate and arch downward, the legume soon buried and developing underground, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arachis hypogaea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arachis hypogaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Arachis hypogaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-24-001:
Arachis hypogaea FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arachis hypogaea
COMMON NAME:
Peanut
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arachis hypogaea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arachis hypogaea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arachis hypogaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Arachis hypogaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-24-001:
Arachis hypogaea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arachis hypogaea
3584
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Fields; commonly cultivated, rarely persistent, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: South America
Commonly cultivated, rarely persistent
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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 (8 fertile, 2 sterile)
Flowers in leaf axils
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
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