Flora of North America species comparison

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Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea

Amorpha herbacea var. floridana
Photo is of parent taxon

clusterspike false indigo
Photo is of parent taxon

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

rachis usually puberulent.

rachis usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent.
Racemes

usually densely puberulent.

sparsely puberulent.
Calyces

tube densely puberulent or short-pilose.

tube usually glabrous or glabrate, sometimes strigulose.
Legumes

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

usually glabrous.

Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea

Amorpha herbacea var. floridana
Phenology Flowering May–Jul(–Sep). Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat Open woods, sandhills, and savannas of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and a single specimen from North Carolina mountains. Pine woodlands on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Elevation 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.) 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
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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from FNA
FL; GA; Pine woodlands on the Atlantic Coastal Plain
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. floridana
A. herbacea var. herbacea
Synonyms A. cyanostachya A. floridana
Name authority unknown (Rydberg) Wilbur: J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 80: 55. (1964)
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