Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Coral-bean from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Erythrina herbacea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erythrina herbacea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-40-001:
Erythrina herbacea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Erythrina arborea
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Erythrina herbacea
COMMON NAME:
Coral-bean, Cardinal-spear
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Look for it in maritime forests, dry sandy woodlands, sandhills in the outer Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora
Shrub; Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Uncommon (rare in NC)
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems armed with many small prickles along the internodes OR unarmed
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Red
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped campanulate calyx
5-parted corolla, papilionaceous? but standard folded, flower appearing tubular
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p210
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p353
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p092
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p090
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p039
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