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Strophostyles helvola

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Elliott

Common Names

• Yellowish Wild Bean
• Amberique Bean
• Frijol Diablito (Cuba)

Geographical Habitats

• Ontario
• Quebec - Canada
• Mexico
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin - USA

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous hairy annual twiner to 9m or prostrate vine with trifoliolate leaves, 3-lobed leaflets to 80mm long glabrous above. Axillary or terminal inflorescences of white-pink to pale mauve flowers with deep purple curved keel, glabrate calyx to 3.5mm long, lobes to 3.5mm long, purple or purplish corolla aging greenish, standard to 15mm across. Pubescent or glabrous somewhat flattened legume to 100mm x 6mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• APDC
• AFVP
• Mansfeld
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• ILDIS
• USNH