Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
The West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America; naturalized in the United States and the Old World.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh as collected once at Mastic Point, Andros by “Keith” and as cultivated on New Providence. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 666) for “open grassy soil” in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 9) and inferred as native. Treated as exotic by the Flora of the West Indies (see link below), with which we agree based on the evidence at hand.
