NameThatPlant.net: Desmanthus illinoensis

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Illinois Bundleflower from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-03-001:
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Acuan illinoense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Mimosa illinoensis

COMMON NAME:
Illinois Bundleflower, Prairie Mimosa

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image of Desmanthus illinoensis, Illinois Bundleflower, Prairie Mimosa

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_acil2_001_lvd

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_illinoensis_8

August

Lvs similar to Mimosa microphylla, but plants erect, flwrs whitish, smaller, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-03-001:
Desmanthus illinoensis FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Acuan illinoense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Mimosa illinoensis

3618

Subshrub; Forb
Perennial

Native: south & west of the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare in GA-NC-SC

Look for it in prairies, marsh edges, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Not armed

LEAVES:
Evenly 2-pinnately compound: 6-16 pinnae, each with 20-30 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
White (with white filaments)
Flower heads have long peduncles; flowers are sessile.
Bisexual or the lowest staminate
5 exserted stamens
Superior ovary

Flower heads solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

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