NameThatPlant.net: Orbexilum pedunculatum

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orbexilum pedunculatum FAMILY Fabaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Western Sampson's Snakeroot from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Orbexilum pedunculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-004b:

Psoralea psoralioides var. eglandulosa FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Orbexilum pedunculatum

COMMON NAME:
Western Sampson's-snakeroot

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image of Orbexilum pedunculatum, Western Sampson's-snakeroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pspe3_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Orbexilum pedunculatum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Orbexilum pedunculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Orbexilum pedunculatum var. pedunculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-19-004b:
Psoralea psoralioides var. eglandulosa FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Orbexilum pedunculatum

1167

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Open woodlands, bluffs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA Mountains & GA Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bluish-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed persistant calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10(9) stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers in spikelike racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

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