Mimosa
Family: Fabaceae
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Sue Carnahan
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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.

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Mimosa acanthocarpa
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Mimosa acantholoba
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Mimosa acapulcensis
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Mimosa aculeaticarpa
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Mimosa acutistipula
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Mimosa adenantheroides
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Mimosa adenocarpa
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Mimosa adenotricha
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Mimosa affinis
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Mimosa albida
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Mimosa alleniana
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Mimosa andina
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Mimosa arcuata
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Mimosa arenosa
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Mimosa argillotropha
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Mimosa aspera
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Mimosa asperata
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Mimosa atlantica
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Mimosa aurivillus
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Mimosa bahamensis
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Mimosa balansae
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Mimosa balduinii
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Mimosa barrancana
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Mimosa barretoi
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Mimosa benthamii
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Mimosa berlandieri
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Mimosa berroi
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Mimosa bifurca
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Mimosa bimucronata
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Mimosa borealis
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Mimosa brandegeei
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Mimosa brandegei
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Mimosa brevispica
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Mimosa brevispicata
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Mimosa caduca
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Mimosa caerulea
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Mimosa caesalpiniifolia
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Mimosa calcarea
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Mimosa calcicola
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Mimosa callidryas
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Mimosa callithrix
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Mimosa callosa
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Mimosa camporum
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Mimosa canonis
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Mimosa capillipes
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Mimosa casta
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Mimosa ceratonia
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Mimosa chaetocarpa
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Mimosa chartostegia
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Mimosa chihuahuana
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