Rhynchosia tomentosa (L.) Hook. & Arn.

Erect Snout Bean ; Twining Snout Bean

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

Erect Snout Bean is a native herbaceous perennial in the Bean family (Fabaceae). It can be found throughout Alabama. Erect Snout Bean grows in pine forests, mixed pine-hardwood forests, prairies, and in sand hills. It is a perennial with a tap root. One or more erect stems are produced from each root stock. The stems are 1-3 feet in height, green in color, pubescent, and angled. Leaves are alternate and 3-foliate. The leaflets are ovate to elliptic in outline, pubescent and glandular, with conspicuously sunken veins. Flowers are produced in axillary and terminal racemes. The flowers are numerous and tightly clustered. Individual flowers are papilionaceous, pubescent, inconspicuously glandular, and yellow in color. The fruit is a short, broad legume with typically two seed. The legume is pubescent and inconspicuously glandular.--A. Diamond

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Native

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