North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Fabaceae > Orbexilum (Scurfpea, Sampson's-snakeroot, Leatherroot)
	Piedmont Leatherroot, Lupine Scurfpea (Orbexilum lupinellum) Scotland Co., NC 1 Oct 2006 Uncommon in NC (NC Watch List) in the sandhills. Formerly treated as Psoralea lupinellus. Fruits are very small legumes.
	Piedmont Leatherroot, Lupine Scurfpea (Orbexilum lupinellum) Scotland Co., NC 1 Oct 2006 Odd leaves: palmately compound with long linear to oblinear leaflets.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.