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Roemer's false indigo

Habit Shrubs, 1–3 m; arising from compact, woody root.
Stems

smooth, gland-dotted, puberulent or glabrous.

Leaves

(5–)10–15(–20) cm;

stipules linear, 1.5–2 mm, eglandular, puberulent;

petiole (5–)15–30 mm, gland-dotted, usually puberulent;

rachis eglandular, usually puberulent;

leaflets (7–)9–11(–15), stipels acicular, 1.2–2 mm, petiolule 2–5(–7) mm, usually gland-dotted, puberulent or glabrous, blade usually narrowly elliptic to oblong, rarely obovate to suborbiculate, (10–)25–40(–50) × (7–)15–25(–38) mm, base round, margins flat, entire or conspicuously crenulate, apex round or emarginate, surfaces puberulent abaxially, glabrate or glabrous adaxially;

midvein terminated by a slightly swollen mucro, 0.4–0.8 mm.

Racemes

1–3(–6)-branched, (4–)6–12(–20) cm;

rachis sparsely gland-dotted, puberulent;

bracteoles linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1.2–2.2 mm, eglandular, puberulent to short-pilose.

Pedicels

1–1.5 mm, eglandular, puberulent.

Flowers

calyx tube funnelform, 2.5–3.8 mm, distal 1/3 gland-dotted, short-pilose or glabrous;

lobes usually narrowly lanceolate, (0.2–)0.4–1.2(–1.4) mm;

banner purple, broadly obcordate, 5–7 × 5–6 mm, indistinctly clawed, margins entire or slightly erose;

filaments 6–10 mm, connate basally 4–6 mm;

anthers yellow;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

sessile, 6–7 × 2.5–3.5 mm, margins curved outward abaxially, straight or bent inward adaxially, at least distal 1/2 gland-dotted, glabrous or slightly hairy.

Seeds

brown, reddish brown, or greenish brown, 2.5–4.5 × 1.5–2 mm, smooth, not lustrous.

Amorpha roemeriana

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Grasslands and open woodlands on limestone soils.
Elevation 400–800 m. (1300–2600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Coahuila)
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Discussion

In the flora area, Amorpha roemeriana is confined to the Edwards Plateau area of central Texas, where it occurs in Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Medina, Travis, and Uvalde counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Amorpha
Sibling taxa
A. californica, A. canescens, A. confusa, A. crenulata, A. fruticosa, A. georgiana, A. glabra, A. herbacea, A. laevigata, A. nana, A. nitens, A. ouachitensis, A. paniculata, A. schwerinii
Synonyms A. texana
Name authority Scheele: Linnaea 21: 461. (1848)
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