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cat-bells

Florida wild indigo

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

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
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; SC
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from FNA
FL
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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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Baptisia Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Baptisia
Sibling taxa
B. alba, B. arachnifera, B. australis, B. bracteata, B. calycosa, B. cinerea, B. hirsuta, B. lactea, B. lanceolata, B. lecontei, B. leucophaea, B. megacarpa, B. nuttalliana, B. simplicifolia, B. sphaerocarpa, B. tinctoria
B. alba, B. arachnifera, B. australis, B. bracteata, B. cinerea, B. hirsuta, B. lactea, B. lanceolata, B. lecontei, B. leucophaea, B. megacarpa, B. nuttalliana, B. perfoliata, B. simplicifolia, B. sphaerocarpa, B. tinctoria
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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