Tephrosia mohrii
Tephrosia chrysophylla
dwarf goat's-rue, pineland hoarypea
scurf hoary-pea
erect, 10–15(–20) cm, strigulose.
prostrate, 20–50 cm, densely strigose to hirsutulous or hispid-hirsute, hairs spreading to deflexed.
petiole 3–10 mm;
leaflets (9–)13–27, blades elliptic to oblong or obovate-oblong, 6–12 × 4–5.5 mm, length 1.8–2.8 times width, apex obtuse or rounded to truncate, surfaces strigose, adaxial sparsely so.
petiole (0 or) 1–5 mm, leaflets (3 or)5 or 7, blades concolorous, obovate-obtriangular to oblong-obovate, elliptic, or obovate, 12–35 × 7–20 mm, length 1.3–2 times width, apex truncate to retuse, abaxial surface densely strigose, hairs relatively long and overlapping, venation greenish, adaxial bright green, glabrous or sparsely strigose, venation raised.
4–12-flowered, flowers mostly axillary in distal portion of leafy stems;
floral bracts caducous, setaceous.
axillary, 2–6-flowered, evident (flowers well above level of leaves), 2–10(–15) cm;
floral bracts persistent, linear-lanceolate.
corolla cream, pink, and white (banner cream, wings and keel dark pink to white), 13–17 mm;
stamens monadelphous;
style bearded.
corolla white to pale pink, aging pink to reddish, (8–)10–14 mm;
stamens diadelphous;
style bearded.
36–58 × 4–5.5 mm, strigose.
30–40(–50) × 4–5 mm, sparsely strigulose to strigose-hirsute.
Tephrosia mohrii
Tephrosia chrysophylla
Tephrosia mohrii is known from Covington and Houston counties in Alabama; Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton counties in Florida; and Ben Hill and Grady counties in Georgia. The species appears to intergrade with T. virginiana.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Tephrosia chrysophylla is recognized by its prostrate habit and sessile or subsessile leaves with relatively few, broad and short leaflets with raised adaxial venation.
A “Panhandle Entity” of Tephrosia chrysophylla was recognized by K. R. DeLaney (2010b) as a likely distinct species, possibly correctly identified as T. carpenteri or T. chapmanii. It is said to replace typical T. chrysophylla west of the Ochlockonee River in Florida, southwestern Georgia, southern Alabama, and southeastern Mississippi. In this view, the only localities of typical T. chrysophylla outside of Florida are in coastal or near-coastal southeastern Georgia.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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