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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tephrosia virginiana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Virginia Goat's Rue from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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
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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).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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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).
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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).
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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
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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
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_virginiana_6
August
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JK Marlow jkm0410p_07
October Oconee County SC
Roadside
Somebody needs to tell this plant that it's October.
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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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p086
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p186
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p076
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p249
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p350
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p066
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p055
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p391
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p343
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p166
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p035
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p130
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p206
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p141
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p178
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p449
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p087
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p079
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