Scurf Hoarypea

Cracca chapmanii (Vail) .Small, Fl. SE. U. S 612, 1331. 1903.
Cracca chrysophylla Chapmanni Vail. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 34. 1895. Tephrosia chrysophylla Chapmanni B. L. Robinson. Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899.
A perennial herb, with woody root; stem slender, 1-3 dm. long, pilose with ascending
or appressed hairs; leaves 1-3 cm. long, subsessile; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate;
rachis appressed-pilose; leaflets 3-7, obovate or elliptic, rounded to retuse at the apex, 5-15 cm. long, glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including the peduncle 2-4 cm. long, 2-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, 2 mm. long; corolla purple, about 8 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; pod about 2 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, straight, strigose, fr-8-seeded.
Typb locality: St. Joseph's, Florida.
Distribution: Type locality and vicinity. »

Cracca chrysophylla (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 174 1891
Tephrosia chrvsnphvlla Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 489. 1814.
l.alega florida F. G. Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Naclilr. 3: 422, as to description 1817.
Tephrosia prostrala Nutt. Gen. 2: 120. 1818.
Perennial herb, with a woody root; stems prostrate, 3-10 dm. long, dichotomously branched, densely short-pilose, somewhat viscid and usually tawny; leaves 3-6 cm. long, nearly sessile; stipules lance-subulate, deciduous, 3-4 mm. long; petiole 1-3 mm. long; rachis pilose; leaflets 3-9, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or retuse, coriaceous, 1-3 cm. long, 7-20 mm. wide, glabious and yellowish-green above, appressedsilky beneath; lacemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the pilose peduncle 4-10 cm. long; bractlets 5 mm. long, lance-subulate, persistent; calyx silky-pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla purple; banner broadly obovate, 1 cm. long, short-clawed, abruptly acutish, strigose on the back; wings oblanceolate-oblong, round at the apex, short-clawed, with a basal auricle on the upper side, slightly shorter than the banner; keel-petals broadly lunate, almost semicircular; pod 3.5-4.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, strigose, straight, abruptly acute at both ends, 8-10-seeded; seeds suborbicular, brownish, variegated with black.
TypB locality: Georgia.
Distribution: Pine barrens from Georgia to Mississippi and Florida.

Cracca carpenteri Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial herb; stem decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, strigose; leaves 2-3.5 cm. long, very short-petioled; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis strigose; leaflets 5-7, obovate, retuse or truncate at the apex, 1-1.5 cm. long, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, strigose with long hairs beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including the peduncle 5-8 cm. long, 1-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm long, the lobes ovatedeltoid, acute 2 mm. long; corolla purple, 10-12 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; wings obliquely obovate, with a small acute basal auricle; keel-petals semi-orbicular, with an acute basal auricle; pod 4-4.5 cm. long, slightly downwardly arcuate, 4 mm. wide, hirtous
Type collected in pine woods, Peusacola, Florida, June 1838, Or. Carpenter 44 (Torrey herb., flower) ; also in fruit. Chapman (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Western Florida.

Perennial, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems prostrate, trailing, or mat forming, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Stem hairs hispid to villous, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence leaf-opposed, Bracts conspi cuously present, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals pinkish to rose, Petals blue, lavander to purple, or violet, Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing petals auriculate, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel petals auriculate, spurred, or gibbous, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style sharply bent, Style hairy, Style hairy on one side only, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit exserted from calyx, Valves twisting or coiling after dehiscence, Fruit beaked, Fruit hairy, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black, Seed surface mottled or patchy.

Tephrosia chrysophylla, commonly known as scurf hoarypea is a species of flowering plant. It is in the genus Tephrosia and family Fabaceae. It is a perennial dicot. It has red flowers and compound alternating leaves.