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Pediomelum cuspidatum
About
Pediomelum cuspidatum is a perennial herb also known as the buffalo pea, largebract Indian breadroot and the tall-bread scurf-pea. It is found on the black soil prairies in Texas. It has an inflorescence on stems 18-40 centimeters long arising from a subterranean stem and deep carrot-shaped root that is 4–15 cm long. The long petioled leaves are palmately divided into 5 linear-elliptic leaflets that are 2-4 centimeters long. The flowers, borne in condensed spikes from the leaves, are light blue and pea-like.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pediomelum cuspidatum
- Slug
- pediomelum-cuspidatum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Pediomelum
- Species
- cuspidatum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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