Flora of North America species comparison

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Amorpha herbacea var. floridana

Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea
Photo is of parent taxon

Florida false indigo or indigo-bush
Photo is of parent taxon

clusterspike false indigo
Habit Shrubs usually glabrous or glabrate distally, sometimes sparsely pubescent. Shrubs usually densely short-pubescent or puberulent at least distally, sometimes sparsely pubescent or glabrate.
Leaves

rachis usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent.

rachis usually puberulent.
Racemes

sparsely puberulent.

usually densely puberulent.
Calyces

tube usually glabrous or glabrate, sometimes strigulose.

tube densely puberulent or short-pilose.
Legumes

usually glabrous.

often densely to sparsely puberulent, sometimes proximal 1/3–1/2 glabrous, sometime glabrous throughout.

Amorpha herbacea var. floridana

Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea
Phenology Flowering May–Sep. Flowering May–Jul(–Sep).
Habitat Pine woodlands on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Open woods, sandhills, and savannas of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and a single specimen from North Carolina mountains.
Elevation 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; Pine woodlands on the Atlantic Coastal Plain
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; NC; SC; Open woods; sandhills; and savannas of the Atlantic Coastal Plain; Piedmont; and a single specimen from North Carolina mountains
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Discussion

Variety floridana is a species of special concern in the state of Georgia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Amorpha > Amorpha herbacea Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Amorpha > Amorpha herbacea
Sibling taxa
A. herbacea var. herbacea
A. herbacea var. floridana
Synonyms A. floridana A. cyanostachya
Name authority (Rydberg) Wilbur: J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 80: 55. (1964) unknown
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