Sesbania vesicaria, Riverhemp
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Description:
One pressed specimen of a bagpod collected October 1890. The seeds are poisonous and have been known to be fatal to grazing mammals when ingested.
Accepted: Sesbania vesicaria (Jacq.) Elliott
Synonym: Glottidium vesicarium (Jacquin) Mohr.
- Site: Charleston Co.; Charleston
- Site Number: SC1B
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Sesbania
- Species: Sesbania vesicaria
- Collection: Herbarium Collection
- Object Name: Flowering Plants
- Object Id: BY1052
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