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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pediomelum subacaule   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Pediomelum subacaule

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

Pediomelum subacaule

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

Pediomelum subacaulis

 

COMMON NAME:
Nashville Breadroot


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image of Pediomelum subacaule, Nashville Breadroot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_p_subacaule_11

April        

Plant semi-prostrate, to 12" tall. Leaflets obovate with whitish margins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Pediomelum subacaule, Nashville Breadroot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_p_subacaule_2

April        

image of Pediomelum subacaule, Nashville Breadroot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_p_subacaule_27

April        

image of Pediomelum subacaule, Nashville Breadroot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_pediomelum_subacaule

April        

Blue-purple pea-like flowers borne in dense racemes about 3" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pediomelum subacaule   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pediomelum subacaulis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3753

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: limestone glades, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 5-7 leaflets
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)

FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet rarely white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary

Flowers in terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Summer
Legume

 

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