Crotalaria rotundifolia / [Species detail] / Plant Atlas

Characteristics

Classification

Dicots

Family

FABACEAE

Genus

Crotalaria

Species

Crotalaria rotundifolia J.F.Gmel.

Common Name

RABBITBELLS

Growth Habit

C Value

Plant Notes

A highly variable complex, two additional taxa were recognized by Ward (2010), i.e. plants with uniformly linear leaf blades as C. linaria (keys and southern coasts) and plants with semi-succulent brittle leaf blades and upwardly loosely appressed hairs on the stem as C. maritima (throughout Florida), which left C. rotundifolia s.str. as occurring in central Florida northward.

Status

Native FACU (NWPL)

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Classification

Supraordinal

Order

FABALES

Family

FABACEAE

Genus

Crotalaria

Species

Crotalaria rotundifolia J.F.Gmel. - RABBITBELLS

Citation

CROTALARIA ROTUNDIFOLIA J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 2: 1095. 1792.

Basionym

Type

SOUTH CAROLINA: Hampton Co.: 3 mi. NW of Yemassee on SC 68, 23 Jul 1967, Windler & Windler 2769 (neotype: NCU). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3: 222. 2009.

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