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Accession Data:

Apios americana Medikus

  • Common Name: Indian Potato, Groundnut
  • Family: Fabaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: eastern North America

  • USDA Zone: 4b-8b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201100194
  • Source: Garden (Connolly?)
  • Accession Date: 05-17-2011
  • Bench: 2308 - Nearctic
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 07-09-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Fabales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • SubFamily: Faboideae
  • Tribe: Phaseoleae
  • SubTribe: Erythrininae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

References (internal):

  • Edible Plants
  • Root Vegetables - Tubers
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New Brunswick / Nova Scotia / Ontario / Québec / Colorado / Illinois / Iowa / Kansas / Minnesota / Missouri / Nebraska / Oklahoma / South Dakota / Wisconsin / Connecticut / Indiana / Maine / Masachusettes / Michigan / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New York / Ohio / Pennsylvania / Rhode I. / Vermont / West Virginia / Texas / Alabama / Arkansas / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maryland / Mississippi / North Carolina / South Carolina / Tennessee / Virginia / District of Columbia

References (external):

  1. Thayer, Samuel, Forager's Harvest, 2006, 306pp
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 21, 2017.
  3. Apios americana at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Thursday, September 21, 2017.
  4. Groundnut at In Defense of Plants. Last accessed on Friday, August 24, 2018.

data regenerated on Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:09 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

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Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
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Subfamily Faboideae
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Subfamily Faboideae
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Tribe Genisteae

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Subfamily Faboideae
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Subfamily Faboideae
Tribe Phaseoleae

  • Cajaninae: Rhynchosia phaseoloides
  • Clitoriinae: Clitoria ternatea
  • Erythrininae: Apios americana
  • Erythrininae: Erythrina crista-galli

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Tribe Ingeae

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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= accession added within past 90 days
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