North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Fabaceae > Apios (Groundnuts)
	Common Groundnut (Apios americana) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006 Common and found statewide in NC, Common Groundnut grows along edges of streams, marshes, wet thickets etc.
	Common Groundnut (Apios americana) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006 Flower color varies from pale maroon to a rich, deep maroon.
	Common Groundnut (Apios americana) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006
	Common Groundnut (Apios americana) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006 Compound leaves are rich dark green.
	Common Groundnut (Apios americana) Brunswick Co., NC 25 Aug 2007

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.