Taxon: Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald

See also subordinate taxa:

• Amphicarpaea bracteata var. comosa (no accessions)
• Amphicarpaea bracteata var. pitcheri (no accessions)

Common names:

• hog-peanut   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• haricot de terre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit; vegetable   (fide L Edible Pl)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.], Saskatchewan [e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Montana
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [e.]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. (Atlas Tenn)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. (F IllMohl)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas. (L Penn)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Turner, B. L. & Fearing. 1964. A taxonomic study of the genus Amphicarpaea (Leguminosae). SouthW. Naturalist 9:207–218.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. (F Florida)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amphicarpaea bracteata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amphicarpaea bracteata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Amphicarpaea comosa (L.) Nieuwl. & Lunell [≡ Amphicarpaea bracteata var. comosa]
  
• (=) Amphicarpaea monoica (L.) Elliott
  
• Amphicarpaea pitcheri Torr. & A. Gray [≡ Amphicarpaea bracteata var. pitcheri]
  
• (≡) Glycine bracteata L. (basionym)
  
• Glycine comosa L. [≡ Amphicarpaea bracteata var. comosa]
  

Check other databases for Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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