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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Centrosema virginianum var. virginianum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Climbing Butterfly-pea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centrosema virginianum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-41-001:
Centrosema virginianum FAMILY Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bradburya virginiana
COMMON NAME:
Climbing Butterfly-pea, Spurred Butterfly-pea
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_brvi5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090717_117
July
Stipules ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, persistent, 1.5-4mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm100702_042
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaflets mostly ovate or lance-shaped but sometimes linear, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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JK Marlow jkm100702_047
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
The standard 2.5-3.5cm long, spurred near base; wings & keel about 2cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm180716_3418
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180730_3614
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180730_3619
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm230812_4984
August Greenville County SC
Flowers egg-shaped to nearly round, usually a white spot in center, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
COMPARE
Butterfly-pea species
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JK Marlow jkm230812_4985
August Greenville County SC
Calyx tube broadly hemispheric; lobes linear-subulate, the lowermost longest, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm230812_4986
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4935
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4937
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm071027_032
October Abbeville County SC
Roadside
Fruit a flattened 2-5" linear pod, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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JK Marlow jkm151017_472
October Columbia County GA
Leaflets widely to narrowly ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong to elliptic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s071027_a
October Abbeville County SC
Legume flattened, 7-14cm, with an elongate, persistent, beak-like style, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Centrosema virginianum var. virginianum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Centrosema virginianum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-41-001:
Centrosema virginianum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bradburya virginiana
300
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Habitat: Dry woodlands and openings, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules are persistent.
Leaflets are subtended by stipels.
FLOWER:
Summer
Blue-violet/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
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) p052
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p024
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p207
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p264
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p332
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p090
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p038
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p131
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p188
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p128
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p165
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p077
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p086
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