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Cracca intermedia Small, Bull Torrey Club 21 : 30.3 1894
Cracca Smallii Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: M. 1895. Cracca fluridana Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 35. 1895. Tephrosia Smallii B. L. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899.
A perennial, with a long woody root; stem prostrate to adsurgent, 2-6 dm. long, branched and flexuose, angled above, finely short-pilose, somewhat viscid; leaves 4-10 cm. long; stipules 3-5 mm. long, subulate, deciduous or persistent; petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 5-13, elliptic or oblong-obovate, obtuse, rounded or truncate at the apex, apiculate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 5-14 mm. wide, glabrous atid yellowish-green above, grayish-stiigose beneath, the veins strong, turning reddish; racemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the peduncle 1-2 dm. long; bracts subulate, 5-7 mm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; calyx strigose-pilose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate' 3 mm. long; corolla white turning reddish-puiple, about 15 mm. long; banner rounded-obovate, strigose on the back; wings obliquely broadly oblanceolate, with a rather large basal auricle; pod 3-4 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, erect, straight, strigose, 6-10-seeded; seeds ovoid, grayish or brownish variegated with black.
Type locality: Near Jacksonville, Florida.
Distribution: Pinelands from Georgia to Florida and Louisiana.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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