Hoarypea

Cracca intermedia Small, Bull Torrey Club 21 : 30.3 1894
Cracca Smallii Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: M. 1895. Cracca fluridana Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 35. 1895. Tephrosia Smallii B. L. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899.
A perennial, with a long woody root; stem prostrate to adsurgent, 2-6 dm. long, branched and flexuose, angled above, finely short-pilose, somewhat viscid; leaves 4-10 cm. long; stipules 3-5 mm. long, subulate, deciduous or persistent; petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 5-13, elliptic or oblong-obovate, obtuse, rounded or truncate at the apex, apiculate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 5-14 mm. wide, glabrous atid yellowish-green above, grayish-stiigose beneath, the veins strong, turning reddish; racemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the peduncle 1-2 dm. long; bracts subulate, 5-7 mm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; calyx strigose-pilose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate' 3 mm. long; corolla white turning reddish-puiple, about 15 mm. long; banner rounded-obovate, strigose on the back; wings obliquely broadly oblanceolate, with a rather large basal auricle; pod 3-4 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, erect, straight, strigose, 6-10-seeded; seeds ovoid, grayish or brownish variegated with black.
Type locality: Near Jacksonville, Florida.
Distribution: Pinelands from Georgia to Florida and Louisiana.

Perennial, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems prostrate, trailing, or mat forming, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Stem hairs hispid to villous, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins ent ire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence leaf-opposed, Bracts conspicuously present, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals reddish brown, maroon, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing petals auriculate, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel petals auriculate, spurred, or gibbous, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style sharply bent, Style hairy, Style hairy on one side only, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit exserted from calyx, Valves twisting or coiling after dehiscence, Fruit beaked, Fruit hairy, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black, Seed surface mottled or patchy.