...Variable
...Dry
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Littleleaf Sensitive-briar from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Mimosa microphylla
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimosa microphylla
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Mimosa quadrivalvis var. angustata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-02-001:
Schrankia microphylla
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Leptoglottis microphylla
COMMON NAME:
Littleleaf Sensitive-briar, Eastern Sensitive-briar
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_momi3_001_lvd
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Roxanna Martin rlm52911_134
May Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506q_04
June Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm120626_280
June Greenville County SC
Leaflets asymmetric, 20-32 per pinna, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120626_282
June Greenville County SC
The tiny flowers are borne in a round, powder-puff-shaped cluster, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190608_9067
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190617_9239
June Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm61210_198
June Spartanburg County SC
The flower heads are pedunculate, globose, and about 2cm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_microphylla
June
Each flower in this head has a small 5-lobed corolla & 10 long pink stamens, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm060704_007
July Pickens County SC
Roadside
Plant typically with numerous prickles, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120704_450
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120727_884
July Spartanburg County SC
Fruits are conspicuously prickly, quadrangular, dehiscent legumes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm120727_886
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120727_895
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180716_3414
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180731_3622
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6327
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6328
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6334
July Greenville County SC
Bipinnate leaves with tiny leaflets that close when touched, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
bipinnately compound leaves of forbs