Baptisia sphaerocarpa |
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green wild indigo, round wild indigo, yellow wild indigo |
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Habit | Herbs erect, to 1 m, glabrescent. |
Leaves | petiolate; stipules deciduous, subulate, 4–16 mm; petiole 1–4 mm; leaflets 3 to mid stem, or 1 or 2 distally, blades obovate or elliptic to oblanceolate. |
Racemes | 5+-flowered, terminal, stiffly erect, bracteate, bracts caducous. |
Pedicels | 2–5 mm. |
Flowers | 18–22 mm; calyx 7–9 mm, glabrous; corolla bright yellow, 16–20 mm. |
Legumes | ascending to spreading, suborbicular, 7–11 × 7–11 mm, woody, glabrous. |
Seeds | 2–4(–6). |
2n | = 18. |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Mostly clay or silty-clay soils. |
Elevation | 10–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
LA; MO; MS; OK; TX
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Discussion | Baptisia sphaerocarpa forms hybrids with B. lactea, B. leucophaea (B. × intermedia Larisey [= B. × bushii Small and B. × stricta Larisey]), and B. nuttalliana. Baptisia × bushii was treated as a species by M. M. Larisey (1940). Baptisia × intermedia, as described by Larisey, was said to be a hybrid of B. leucophaea var. glabrescens Larisey and B. viridis, which is treated here as synonymous with B. sphaerocarpa. Interestingly, these three hybrids (B. × bushii, B. × intermedia, and B. × stricta) key out in adjacent couplets in the treatment by Larisey. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Baptisia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | B. viridis |
Name authority | Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 97. (1834) |
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