EcoFlora - Mimosa

Mimosa
Family: Fabaceae Sue Carnahan	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Fls perfect or the lower ones staminate; cal very small; cor gamopetalous, funnelform, 5-lobed; stamens mostly 10, with long, slender filaments; fr prickly, oblong to linear, obtusely tetragonal, the sutures (collectively forming a replum) about as wide as the persistent valves and separating from them at maturity; sprawling perennial herbs, armed with numerous stout hooked prickles; lvs bipinnate, sensitive, with small lfls; fls rose-purple, numerous in axillary peduncled heads. Nearly 600, New World. Description here based entirely on the small series Quadrivalves of section Batocaulon, forming the traditional genus Schrankia Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Plantas del Estado de Sinaloa, México Mimosa affinis Map not Available Mimosa albida Map not Available Mimosa asperata Map not Available Mimosa biuncifera Map not Available Mimosa brandegei Map not Available Mimosa coelocarpa Map not Available Mimosa distachya Map not Available Mimosa guatemalensis Map not Available Mimosa laxiflora Map not Available Mimosa occidentalis Map not Available Mimosa palmeri Map not Available Mimosa polyantha Map not Available Mimosa sinaloensis Map not Available Mimosa spirocarpa Map not Available