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Rhynchosia tomentosa (Linnaeus) Hooker & Arnott. Erect Snoutbean. Phen: Jun-Sep; Aug-Oct. Hab: Xeric woodlands and forests, longleaf pine sandhills, barrens, edges, open areas. Dist: 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, K1, K3, K4, 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

Links to other floras: = Rhynchosia tomentosa var. tomentosa - FNA11.1

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

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

native range: