Crotalaria ochroleuca |
Crotalaria retusa |
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slender leaf rattlebox |
rattleweed |
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Habit | Herbs annual or short-lived perennial. | Herbs annual. |
Stems | erect, 70–250 cm, strigose. |
erect, 30–90 cm, strigose to strigose-sericeous. |
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 sometimes absent, setaceous, not decurrent on stem, 1–2 mm; blade obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate, 30–80 mm, length 2.2–3(–4) times width, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
Racemes | 4–12-flowered, terminal or subterminal, 15–40 cm; bracts persistent, linear-triangular, minute. |
5–24-flowered, terminal, subterminal, or lateral, 10–20(–30) cm; bracts caducous, linear, 2–3 mm. |
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, 12–15 mm, basally truncate, lobes triangular-lanceolate, glabrous or slightly puberulous; corolla bright yellow, with prominent reddish lines to strongly red-tinted, 20–25 mm. |
Legumes | straight, (40–)50–70 × (10–)15–20 mm, sparsely strigose or glabrescent. |
25–40(–50) × 10–14 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Crotalaria ochroleuca |
Crotalaria retusa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering Jul–Oct, Jan–Apr. |
Habitat | Roadsides, ditches, prairie swales, sandy fields. | Fallow fields, roadsides, sandy wastes. |
Elevation | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 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] |
FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Asia, Indian Ocean Islands, Pacific Islands, Australia] |
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 the flora area, Crotalaria retusa is commonly found in subtropical Florida but much more rarely in temperate areas, where it does not persist. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | G. Don: Gen. Hist. 2: 138. (1832) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 715. (1753) |
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