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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Tephrosia virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Tephrosia virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-34-001:

Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Cracca virginiana

 

COMMON NAME:
Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_crvi7_001_lvd

        

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Alan S. Weakley    asw_1694084001062637

May        NC

Roadside

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JK Marlow    jkm180504_1668

May    Meriwether-Talbot Counties    GA

Sprewell Bluff WMA

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Alan S. Weakley    asw_10216398183883238

June        

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm070609_010

June    Pickens County    SC

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JK Marlow    jkm100606_012

June    Union County    SC

An erect unbranched plant covered with silky white hairs. Leaves odd-pinnate, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of forbs

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm100606_065

June    Laurens County?    SC

Densely hairy, dehiscent legumes, 2.5-3" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm100606_079

June    Greenville County    

Chandler Heritage Preserve

Flowers pea-like: the standard pale yellow to cream, the wings pink, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm100606_080

June    Greenville County    

Chandler Heritage Preserve

Calyx usually densely pillose or villous, occasionally strigose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm210626_1653

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

Keith Bradley    kab_t_virginiana_0193

June    Caldwell County    NC

Pisgah National Forest

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Keith Bradley    kab_t_virginiana_0199

June    Caldwell County    NC

Pisgah National Forest

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_t_virginiana_6

August        

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm0410p_07

October    Oconee County    SC

Roadside

Somebody needs to tell this plant that it's October.

image of Tephrosia virginiana, Virginia Goat's Rue, Devil's Shoestrings

JK Marlow    jkm231024_6226

October    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Tephrosia virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Tephrosia virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-34-001:
Tephrosia virginiana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cracca virginiana

 

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1491

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry or dryish pinelands, xeric and/or rocky oak and oak-pine woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, shale barrens and other barrens, dry roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: (9)13-23(35) leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Corolla bicolored: the standard cream; wings & keel pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Stamens monadelphous
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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