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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orbexilum lupinellus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Lupine Scurfpea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The epithet 'lupinellus' is a noun in apposition and is therefore not declined according to the genus's gender; 'lupinellus' is the correct epithet and spelling in any genus. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2022).
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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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).
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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
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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
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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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p299
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p243
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p415
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p201
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p092
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