Baptisia perfoliata |
Baptisia calycosa |
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cat-bells |
Florida wild indigo |
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Habit | Herbs ascending or erect, much-branched, to 1 m, glabrous. | Herbs to 1 m, glabrous. |
Leaves | sessile; stipules absent; leaflet 1, blade perfoliate, broadly ovate-elliptic. |
petiolate; stipules persistent, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–20 mm; petiole 1–5 mm; leaflets 3, blades cuneate-ovate to spatulate, surfaces glabrate. |
Racemes | 1-flowered, axillary, ebracteate. |
1-flowered, terminal, foliose, bracteate. |
Pedicels | absent. |
10–40 mm, bracteolate. |
Flowers | 15–17 mm; calyx 5–7 mm, glabrous; corolla bright yellow, 13–15 mm. |
12–14 mm; calyx 8–13 mm, lobes longer than tube, glabrate; corolla yellow, 10–12 mm. |
Legumes | ascending, ovoid, 10–15 × 8–12 mm, abruptly beaked, woody. |
ascending, ellipsoid to suborbicular, 10–12 × 8–10 mm, ± woody. |
Seeds | 2–4. |
2–4. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Baptisia perfoliata |
Baptisia calycosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Open pine and pine-oak woodlands, sandy soils. | Pine and pine-oak woodlands, white, sandy soils. |
Elevation | 10–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC
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FL |
Discussion | Baptisia perfoliata forms hybrids with B. alba, B. lanceolata, and B. tinctoria; F1 hybrids with the latter are called B. × microphylla Nuttall. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Baptisia calycosa is restricted to Clay and St. Johns counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Crotalaria perfoliata | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton: Hortus Kew. 3: 5. (1811) | Canby: Bot. Gaz. 3: 65. (1878) |
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