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):
Orbexilum lupinellus   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum lupinellum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Orbexilum lupinellus

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

Orbexilum lupinellus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-001:

Psoralea lupinellus   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Rhytidomene lupinellus

 

COMMON NAME:
Lupine Scurfpea, Sandhill Scurfpea, Lupine Leatherroot


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image of Orbexilum lupinellus, Lupine Scurfpea, Sandhill Scurfpea, Lupine Leatherroot

Will Stuart    wil_o_lupinellum_0503

May    Chesterfield    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Very peculiar leaves, palmately 5-7-foliolate with "oblinear" leaflets, make this unmistakable, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Orbexilum lupinellus, Lupine Scurfpea, Sandhill Scurfpea, Lupine Leatherroot

Will Stuart    wil_o_lupinellum_0580

May    Chesterfield    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Plant habit, open, spreading, 15-30 cm tall, with distinctive slender leaves. — Will Stuart

image of Orbexilum lupinellus, Lupine Scurfpea, Sandhill Scurfpea, Lupine Leatherroot

Will Stuart    wil_o_lupinellum_3979

June    Chesterfield    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Pea-shaped flowers grow terminally in small clusters atop a stalk, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum lupinellum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-001:
Psoralea lupinellus   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4307

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & NC (rare in SC)

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: (3)5-7 leaflets
Mostly alternate

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes slender, elongate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bluish-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed persistant calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10(9) stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers in loose, few-flowered racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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