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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orbexilum pedunculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Western Sampson's Snakeroot from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Orbexilum pedunculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-004b:
Psoralea psoralioides var. eglandulosa FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Orbexilum pedunculatum
COMMON NAME:
Western Sampson's-snakeroot
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pspe3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orbexilum pedunculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Orbexilum pedunculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-004b:
Psoralea psoralioides var. eglandulosa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Orbexilum pedunculatum
1167
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Open woodlands, bluffs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Mountains & GA Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bluish-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed persistant calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10(9) stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers in spikelike racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p205
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p124
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p201
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p137?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p175
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p080
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