OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia difformis   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Rhynchosia difformis

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

Rhynchosia difformis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-003:

Rhynchosia difformis   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Rhynchosia tomentosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Doubleform Snoutbean


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image of Rhynchosia difformis, Doubleform Snoutbean

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_doto_001_lvd

        

image of Rhynchosia difformis, Doubleform Snoutbean

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_rhynchosia_difformis2

June    Dare County    NC

A prostrate or twining herbaceous vine with an angled, tawny, hairy stem, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Rhynchosia difformis, Doubleform Snoutbean

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_rhynchosia_difformis3

June    Dare County    NC

This vine's 3-foliate leaves are similar to those of the erect R. tomentosa, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchosia difformis   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-43-003:
Rhynchosia difformis   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

 

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3060

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets (lowermost leaves usually have 1)
Mostly alternate
Stipules are persistent.
No stipels

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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