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Strophostyles umbellata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Muhlemberg ex Willdenow) Britton

Common Names

• Pink Fuzzy Bean
• Pink Wild Bean

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Mexico
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia - USA

Natural Habitats

• Fields & open woodland

Flowering Times

• Summer to Autumn

Fruiting Times

Perennial herbaceous prostrate pubescent sometimes climbing vine with trifoliolate leaves, leaflets to 40mm long sometime slightly lobed. Inflorescence with subtending bracts, flowers white & pale to deep pink to mauve with darker keel to 15mm wide, calyx to 3mm long, corolla fading yellowish, standard to 20mm across. Fruit to 60mm x 4mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOSEUS
• USDA
• USNH