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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Apios americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-39-001:

Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Glycine apios

 

COMMON NAME:
American Groundnut, Common Groundnut


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_apam_005_lvd

        

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_glap_001_lvd

        

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Keith Bradley    kab_apios_americana_1350

July    Henderson County    NC

Pisgah National Forest

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JK Marlow    jkm060826_056

August    Greenville County    SC

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JK Marlow    jkm060826_058

August    Greenville County    SC

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JK Marlow    jkm090815_098

August    Greenville County    SC

Beaverpond & adjacent land

Sweetly fragrant brown-purple flowers arise in racemes from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

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JK Marlow    jkm090815_103

August    Greenville County    SC

Beaverpond & adjacent land

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JK Marlow    jkm110814_259

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

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JK Marlow    jkm110814_265

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

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JK Marlow    jkm130823_515

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Flowers 1/2" long, petals thick and brownish-purple, racemes dense & compact, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

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JK Marlow    jkm140822_944945

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

The keel strongly curved inward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm140822_946

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_apios_americana

August        

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JK Marlow    s090815_05

August    Greenville County    SC

Beaverpond & adjacent land

Leaves pinnately compound with 5-7 ovate-lanceolate leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

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JK Marlow    jkm090924_069

September    Hancock County    ME

Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia

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JK Marlow    jkm110924_612

September    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

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Sam Pratt    sbp_2731

September    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

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Sam Pratt    sbp_2732

September    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

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Sam Pratt    sbp_2733

September    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

Roots with numerous enlargements [tubers], per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

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Sam Pratt    sbp_2737

September    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

Native Americans used the root tubers as a staple food source, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

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Sam Pratt    sbp_2740

September    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

Tubers can be used in soups and stews, or fried like potatoes, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

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Bill Stringer    wcsgroundnut_2b

September        

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JK Marlow    jkm111016_031

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Fruit: Many-seeded linear legumes, 2-4" long, about 0.25" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Apios americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-39-001:
Apios americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Glycine apios

 

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108

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Habitat: marshes (tidal and non-tidal), wet thickets, streambanks, bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: (3)5-7 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Brownish-purple/ Pinkish-maroon
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed broadly campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

Raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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