Rhynchosia tomentosa (Linnaeus) Hooker & Arnott. Common name: Erect Snoutbean. Phenology: Jun-Sep; Aug-Oct. Habitat: Xeric woodlands and forests, longleaf pine sandhills, barrens, edges, open areas. Distribution: DE south to n. peninsular FL, west to LA, and north in the interior to e. and c. TN.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = Dolicholus tomentosus (L.) Vail; = Rhynchosia tomentosa (L.) Hook. & Arn. var. tomentosa — C, Fl3, FNA11.1, K4, NS, POWO, SE3, Tx, WH3, Isely (1998), Woods & Key (2009); > Dolicholus drummondii Vail — S13; > Dolicholus erectus (Walter) Vail — S13; > Dolicholus intermedius (Torr. & A.Gray) Vail — S13; > Dolicholus tomentosus (L.) Vail var. tomentosus — S13; > Dolicholus tomentosus (L.) Vail var. undulatus Vail — S13; > Rhynchosia erecta (Walter) DC. — S; > Rhynchosia intermedia (Torr. & Gray) Small — S; < Rhynchosia tomentosa (L.) Hook. & Arn. — F, G, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W; Glycine tomentosa Linnaeus. Basionym: Glycine tomentosa L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Rhynchosia tomentosa var. tomentosa - FNA11.1
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of dry woodlands and forests, sandhills and sandy clearings.
Stems: Stems sometimes strongly angled, occasionally branched, very hairy.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of linear-lance-shaped stipules at base, divided into 3 velvety-hairy, oval to elliptic leaflets, these to 2 3/4 in. long and with conspicuous, netted veins.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in short terminal and axillary racemes, yellow, about 1/3 in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect "banner" petal and a hairy calyx tube nearly as long as the corolla.
Fruits: Fruit a hairy, compressed pod with blunt or short-beaked tip.
Comments:
Height: 2-3 ft.
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description: Erect perennial of dry woodlands and forests, sandhills and sandy clearings.
stems: Stems sometimes strongly angled, occasionally branched, very hairy.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of linear-lance-shaped stipules at base, divided into 3 velvety-hairy, oval to elliptic leaflets, these to 2 3/4 in. long and with conspicuous, netted veins.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in short terminal and axillary racemes, yellow, about 1/3 in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect "banner" petal and a hairy calyx tube nearly as long as the corolla.
fruits: Fruit a hairy, compressed pod with blunt or short-beaked tip.
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cultural notes:
germination code: 3
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