NameThatPlant.net: Strophostyles helvola

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

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

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Learn more about Annual Sand Bean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Strophostyles helvola FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-46-001:

Strophostyles helvola FAMILY Fabaceae

COMMON NAME:
Annual Sand Bean, Beach Pea, Trailing Wild Bean, Trailing Fuzzy-Bean

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Strophostyles helvola FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-46-001:
Strophostyles helvola FAMILY Fabaceae

1470

Herbaceous vine
Annual

Habitat: Coastal dunes, beaches, dry sandy woodlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in NC Mountains)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaves have petioles.
Leaflets have petiolules.
Stipules are persistent.
Leaflets are subtended by stipels.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose/ Purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed campanulate calyx (upper lobes united, so it appears 4-lobed)
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

Flowers in axillary racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

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