Crotalaria avonensis |
Crotalaria spectabilis |
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avon park rattlebox |
rattlebox, showy crotalaria, showy rattlebox |
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Habit | Herbs perennial. | Herbs annual. |
Stems | erect to slightly spreading, 2–10 cm, strigose to sericeous. |
suffrutescent basally, erect, 50–150 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | unifoliolate; stipules absent; blade oblong, elliptic to ovate, or suborbiculate, (5–)8–19 mm, length 1.3–3.5 times width, surfaces loosely strigose-sericeous. |
unifoliolate; stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, not decurrent on stem, 4–7 mm; blade obovate to elliptic, 50–150 mm, length 1.5–2.5 times width, surfaces glaucous, strigose abaxially, glabrous-punctate adaxially. |
Racemes | (1 or)2–8-flowered, terminal, subterminal, or lateral, 2–6 cm; bracts persistent, linear-triangular. |
12–22-flowered, terminal, subterminal, or lateral, 10–50 cm; bracts persistent, cordate-auriculate, 5–8 mm. |
Flowers | calyx cylindrical, 7–8 mm, lobes triangular-lanceolate, loosely strigose; corolla bright yellow, 8–9 mm. |
calyx broadly cylindrical, 10–15 mm, lobes triangular-lanceolate, glabrous; corolla bright yellow, faintly red-lined, 17–25 mm. |
Legumes | 14–25 × 6–8 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose on abaxial suture. |
30–45 × 10–20 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 16. |
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Crotalaria avonensis |
Crotalaria spectabilis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering (Jan–)Aug–Oct (year-round). |
Habitat | White sands, scrub dominated by Florida rosemary, oaks, and/or sand pine, disturbed areas along roads and trails. | Grassy or fallow fields, roadsides, ditches, borrow pits, lake edges, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 30–50 m. (100–200 ft.) | 10–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL |
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; SC; TN; TX; VA; Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Indian Ocean Islands (Reúnion), Pacific Islands]
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Discussion | Crotalaria avonensis is known only from northern Highlands and southern Polk counties on the Lake Wales Ridge; it is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In Texas, Crotalaria spectabilis is known from Brazos, Cameron, Karnes, and Liberty counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | C. retzii | |
Name authority | DeLaney & Wunderlin: Sida 13: 315, figs. 1–5. (1989) | Roth: Nov. Pl. Sp., 341. (1821) |
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