Crotalaria incana |
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fuzzy rattlepod, shake-shake, wooly rattlepod |
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Plants | of the latter are characterized as shrubs or creeping herbs, the stems with long, yellow-brown, spreading hairs (versus shorter, more appressed hairs in subsp. incana), inflorescence bracts usually 4–10 (versus 1–3) mm, and calyx lobes pilose (versus glabrate). |
Both | subspecies of Crotalaria incana are native to southeast Africa, where they are partially sympatric. |
Subspecies | purpurascens (Lamarck) Milne-Redhead occurs also in Madagascar. |
Crotalaria incana |
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Distribution |
Africa; introduced widely [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Crotalaria |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 716. (1753) |
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