334 MISCELLANEOUS • 



GROUNDNUT: Wild Bean. Apios tuberdsa. 



Pulse Family. July — Sept. 



A climbing vine, 3-6 feet high, found in low, 

 moist ground. New Brunswick to Minnesota, 

 south to Florida, Louisiana, and Kansas. 

 Flowers — Maroon and pale brown-lilac, fragrant, 

 borne in short, thick clusters from the 

 leaf angles. 

 Leaves — Compound, 3-7 oval leaflets. 



Roetstock bears edible, tuberous en- 

 largements. 



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