Descriptive
Information
- Field
marks: Petite vine with trailing
or twining stems, alternate compound leaves with 3
lanceolate leaflets, (1-1 3/8 inches long), purple flowers(1.5Ó
long) single on vine.
Largest petal purple-veined and white-splotched. Uppermost is keel
and at the base of the upper petal a blunt spur.
- Size:
Vine length is variable, 1.5 inch lavender pea
flowers.
- General
habitat: Pinelands, hammock margins
- Geographic
range: Coast of the southeastern
U.S., Bermuda,, and tropical America
- Field
Observations : We observed
this flower off the pineland trail. There were three growing within
a four foot diameter. They were all 1-5 feet off the trail. Two
were winding up around tall grass. The other was winding up a small
tree. All three plants only had one flower to a plant and the flowers
bloomed on the vine 6 inches to 2 feet of the ground. We only observed
one visitor to these flowers during our observation and that was
a lone fly about three-quarters of an inch long. He sat there on
the edge of the flower petal and did not move.
- References:
- Alden, P. National Audubon Society Field Guide To Florida.
Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1998. Pg 178.
- Hammer, Roger. Everglades Wieldflowers. Falcon. Gulford, Conneticut.
2002. Pg. 33.
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