Flora of North America species comparison

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Coronilla

Coronilla valentina

crown-vetch

Mediterranean crownvetch, yellow crown-vetch
Habit Shrubs [herbs], unarmed.
Stems

ascending to erect, glabrous.

Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate [unifoliolate];

stipules present;

petiolate;

leaflets [1–](3–)5–7[–13], blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous.

Inflorescences

7–12-flowered, axillary, heads or umbels;

bracts absent;

bracteoles present.

Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx campanulate, lobes 5;

corolla yellow;

stamens 10, diadelphous;

anthers basifixed.

Fruits

loments, stipitate, cylindrical, not or weakly constricted between seeds, linear, indehiscent, glabrous.

Seeds

1–10, oblong;

hilum lateral.

x

= [5], 6.

Coronilla

Coronilla valentina
Distribution
from USDA
s Europe (Mediterranean region); n Africa [Introduced, California]
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
s Europe; nw Africa [Introduced, California]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 9 (1 in the flora).

The results obtained by G. J. Allan and J. M. Porter (2000) indicate that Coronilla, as circumscribed by P. Lassen (1989), may be polyphyletic. See under 119. Securigera for discussion of the circumscription of Coronilla.

Coronilla scorpioides has been reported from Massachusetts and Ohio, probably introduced with pasture seed imported from southern Europe or farther north; the records are old, and the species does not appear to have persisted. A report from Connecticut was based on a misidentified specimen.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Peter W. Ball. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Coronilla
Subordinate taxa
C. valentina
C. valentina subsp. glauca
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 742. (1753) — name conserved: Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 330. (1754) — name conserved Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 742. (1753) — name conserved
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