Tephrosia virginiana


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Noun1.Tephrosia virginiana - perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers andTephrosia virginiana - perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
catgut, goat's rue, wild sweet pea
hoary pea - a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
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croceum (hairy puccoon), Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot), Tephrosia virginiana (goatsrue), and Viola pedala (birdsfoot violet).
Description of vegetation of the Oak Openings of northwestern Ohio at the time of Euro-American settlement (1)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem) was the leading dominant with an IV of 84.6 (200 possible), followed by Tephrosia virginiana (goat's-rue), Opuntia humifusa (common prickly pear), Ambrosia psilostachya (western ragweed), and Dichanthelium villosissimum (hairy panic grass).
Vascular flora of the Sand Ridge State Forest, Mason County, Illinois
One species, Tephrosia virginiana, has bicolored yellow/pink flowers and was counted as one-half species for yellow and for pink color categories.
Nectar Plant Selection by the Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

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