Amorpha californica |
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California false indigo, false indigo |
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Habit | Shrubs, (0.7–)1–3(–4) m; arising from compact, woody root. | ||||||
Stems | smooth, often with spinelike glands, mostly short-pilose to puberulent, glabrate, or glabrous. |
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Leaves | (5–)10–20 cm; stipules linear to narrowly oblong, (2–)4–6 mm; petiole (7–)10–15(–25) mm, glands spinelike, scattered, puberulent or glabrous; rachis glands spinelike, puberulent to short-pilose; leaflets (11–)13–19(–25), stipels acicular, 1–1.5 mm, petiolule 0.7–1.5(–1.8) mm, gland-dotted, pilosulous or glabrous, blade mostly oblong, (8–)15–25(–42) × (6–)10–15(–20) mm, base round to subcordate, margins not revolute, entire or finely crenulate, apex round to obtuse or emarginate, surfaces puberulent to short-pilose or glabrous; midveins terminated by a swollen, globose mucro, 0.2–0.5 mm. |
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Racemes | unbranched, (5–)10–18(–25) cm; rachis often with spinelike glands, pilose; bracteoles linear to lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm, usually gland-dotted, sometimes eglandular, short-pilose. |
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Pedicels | 0.3–1.2 mm, eglandular, mostly puberulent to short-pilose. |
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Flowers | calyx tube narrowly cylindric to funnelform, 2–2.8 mm, distal 1/2 sometimes gland-dotted, puberulent, short-pilose, or glabrous; lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 0.4–2(–2.5) mm; banner reddish purple, broadly obovate, 5–7 × 2.5–4 mm, indistinctly clawed, margins entire; filaments 6–7 mm, connate basally 2–3.2 mm; anthers pale yellow; ovary mostly densely short-pilose. |
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Legumes | sessile, 6–8 × 2.5–3.5 mm, margins curved outward abaxially, straight adaxially, at least distal 1/2 gland-dotted, mostly short-pilose. |
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Seeds | olive brown or reddish brown, 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm, smooth. |
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Amorpha californica |
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Distribution |
w United States; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||
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Name authority | Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 306. (1838) | ||||||
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