Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Rhytidomene lupinellus (Michx.) Rydberg
Psoralea Lupinellus Michx. Fl. Bor Am. 2: 58. 1803.
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Lolodes Lupinellus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 194. 1891.
A perennial with a creeping rootstock ; stem erect or adsurgent, 3-6 dm. high branching glabrous sSy glandular dotted; leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate; stipules 2mm long petLles 2cm. long; leaflets 5-8 cm. long, linear to filiform, with a few scattered gland, peduncle; 5-7 cm. long; racemes lax, 2-5 cm. long, few-flowered; bracts mmute ova e, cusp.date caTyx sparingly "s'trigose, enlarging in fruit; tube 1.5 mm >ong sparmgly ^ndifla ounctate beneathtwo uppermost lobes broadly ovate, acute, 1 mm. long, the lateral ones Zte lanceoS, slightly longer, the lowest one subulate, fully 2 mm. long; corolla blue; pod 1 cm. long, glandular; seed kidney-shaped, brown.
Type locality: Arid places of Carolina Distribution: North Carolina to Florida.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
