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Cologania angustifolia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Hidalgo - Mexico
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Texas -. USA

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• forest
• sandy areas
• woodland
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Sep

Prostrate or glabrous twining herb with 3-5 foliolate leaves, mucronate leaflets to 50mm x 4mm, glabrous above, strigose beneath or strigose both surfaces, striate-angled stems. Axillary 1-3 flowered inflorescence of purple to pink flowers or solitary flowers with bracts & bractlets. Hirsute calyx, violet-purple corolla. Flat falcate pubescent legume to 50mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• USNH
• Gleason & Moldenke