Indigofera caroliniana |
Indigofera hirsuta |
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Carolina indigo |
hairy indigo, roughhairy indigo |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, herbaceous or suffrutescent, sparsely strigose, hairs appressed. | Herbs, annual or biennial, brownish hirsute or pilose, hairs long-spreading. |
Stems | erect or ascending, often bushy, branched, 7–15 dm. |
erect or sprawling, unbranched or branched, 3–10 dm. |
Leaves | 2–8.5 cm; stipules narrowly triangular, 0.5–1 mm; petiole 0.5–1.3 cm; stipels 0.5–1 mm; petiolules 1–1.3 mm; leaflets (7 or)9–13, ± opposite, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 8–20(–25) × 2–12 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces strigulose, pale abaxially. |
4–12.5 cm; stipules narrowly subulate, 10–13 mm; petiole 0.8–1.2 cm; stipels 1–3 mm; petiolules 1.5–2 mm; leaflets 3–7(or 9), opposite, blades elliptic to obovate, 15–60 × 7–25 mm, base cuneate, apex rounded, short-mucronate, surfaces pubescent. |
Racemes | 15–40-flowered, lax, 4–12 cm. |
10–20+-flowered, dense, 6–20 cm. |
Peduncles | 1–2 cm. |
4–9 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–2(–3) mm. |
1–2 mm. |
Flowers | 6–9 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes deltate; corolla dark pinkish buff to ochroleucous. |
6–7 mm; calyx 3.5–5 mm, lobes setaceous, bristly-plumose; corolla salmon red to maroon. |
Legumes | dark brown, deflexed, ovoid or oblong, straight, 7–9 mm, woody, glabrate or sparsely strigulose. |
dark brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 15–22 mm, leathery, hispid. |
Seeds | 2 or 3, yellowish tan, bluntly ellipsoidal. |
6–8, greenish, cuboid. |
2n | = 16. |
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Indigofera caroliniana |
Indigofera hirsuta |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Pinelands, pine-palmetto, scrub oak communities, sandhills, hammocks, roadsides. | Roadsides, old fields, disturbed woodlands, urban waste areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; NC; SC
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AL; FL; GA; MS; SC; se Asia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tabasco), West Indies (Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico), South America (Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela), Pacific Islands, Australia]
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Discussion | Indigofera caroliniana Walter is an illegitimate later homonym that pertains here; the name by Walter is also the basis of Anila caroliniana. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera |
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Synonyms | Anila caroliniana, I. disperma | Anila hirsuta |
Name authority | Miller: Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Indigofera no. 3. (1768) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 751. (1753) |
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