Crotalaria ochroleuca |
Crotalaria purshii |
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slender leaf rattlebox |
Pursh's or coastal plain rattlebox, Pursh's rattlebox |
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Habit | Herbs annual or short-lived perennial. | Herbs perennial. |
Stems | erect, 70–250 cm, strigose. |
erect to ascending, 15–50(–80) cm, sparsely, loosely strigose. |
Leaves | 3-foliolate; stipules absent; leaflet blades linear to linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 50–130(–180) mm, length 7–10 times width, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
unifoliolate; stipules lanceolate-auriculate or triangular, decurrent on mid and distal stems, with 2 distinct lobes, (3–)5–13 mm; blade linear, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, narrower distally, 45–100 mm, length (2.5–)4–10 times width, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
Racemes | 4–12-flowered, terminal or subterminal, 15–40 cm; bracts persistent, linear-triangular, minute. |
(1 or)2–5(–12)-flowered, terminal, subterminal, or lateral, 6–25 cm; bracts persistent, subulate-triangular. |
Flowers | calyx broadly cylindrical, truncate basally, 4–6 mm, lobes triangular, shiny-glabrous; corolla pale yellow with prominent reddish purple lines, 18–20 mm. |
calyx broadly cylindrical, 6–9 mm, lobes triangular-lanceolate, glabrous or slightly puberulous; corolla bright yellow, 8–12 mm. |
Legumes | straight, (40–)50–70 × (10–)15–20 mm, sparsely strigose or glabrescent. |
15–25(–30) × 7–10 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 16. |
= 32. |
Crotalaria ochroleuca |
Crotalaria purshii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Roadsides, ditches, prairie swales, sandy fields. | Roadsides, prairie swales, longleaf pine savannas, pine flatwoods. |
Elevation | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America (Brazil), Asia (China), Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea), Australia] |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Crotalaria ochroleuca has often been identified in the United States as C. intermedia Kotschy or C. brevidens Bentham var. intermedia (Kotschy) Polhill. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In Texas, Crotalaria purshii is known from Hunt County in the northeastern part of the state. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | C. laevigata, C. linearis, C. purshii var. bracteolifera, C. sagittalis var. linearis | |
Name authority | G. Don: Gen. Hist. 2: 138. (1832) | de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 124. (1825) |
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