Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Pediomelum rhombifolium
Pediomelum rhombifolium (Torr. & A. Gray) Rydb.
Gulf Indian Breadroot, Brown-flowered Psoralea, Round-leaf Scurf-pea
Fabaceae (Pea Family)
USDA Symbol: PERH2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Pediomelium rhombifolium
Roundleaf Scurfpea
Fabaceae
Location: E edge of large ditch & 10 m N of E end of East-West Path--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Bare, disturbed caliche. Full sun, very few & scattered.
Description: Perennial from woody taproot, multi-stemmed, rambling to 20 cm long, occasionally ascending. Leaves tri-foliate, on 2+ cm petiole, stipules persistent. Leaflets ovate-rhomboid, to 2.5 cm long x 1.5 cm broad. Infloresence few flowered on long peduncles in outer axils. Corolla red-brown.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 4, 1994
Specimen number: 589
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0876
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SCXRB (In flower) [=Psoralea rhombifolium]