Indigofera kirilowii |
Indigofera colutea |
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kirilow's indigo |
rusty indigo |
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Habit | Shrubs, pubescent, hairs sparse, appressed. | Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, pubescent, hairs long, simple, erect, spreading, glandular, intermixed with appressed hairs. |
Stems | erect, arching, branched, 3–10 dm. |
ascending and spreading or prostrate, branched, 3–30 dm. |
Leaves | 6–15 cm; stipules narrowly long-triangular, attenuate, 4–6 mm; petiole 0.1–2.5(–3) cm; stipels 2–3 mm; petiolules 2–2.5 mm; leaflets (5 or)7–11, opposite, blades broadly ovate, ovate-rhombic, or elliptic, 15–40(–50) × 10–23(–30) mm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex rounded to acute, surfaces appressed-pubescent, pale abaxially. |
1.5–4.5 cm; stipules narrowly linear, 2.5–3.5 mm; petiole 1–1.5 cm; stipels of brown hairs; petiolules 0.5 mm; leaflets 5–11, sometimes subopposite or alternate proximally, opposite distally, blades elliptic or obovate, 7–14 × 3–4 mm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, apiculate, surfaces pubescent, hairs erect, spreading, and appressed. |
Racemes | 40–60+-flowered, dense, 7–8.5 cm. |
3–10-flowered, lax, 2.5–3.5 cm. |
Peduncles | 2–3 cm. |
0.7–1.2 cm. |
Pedicels | 3–5 mm, glabrous. |
0.5–1 mm. |
Flowers | 12–14(–18) mm; calyx 2.5–4 mm, lobes triangular; corolla usually pink, rarely white. |
2.5–3 mm; calyx 1.5–1.9 mm, lobes subulate; corolla reddish or salmon pink. |
Legumes | brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 35–70 mm, leathery, glabrous. |
brown, spreading, slightly deflexed, or slightly ascending, cylindric, straight, 18–26 mm, papery, pubescent. |
Seeds | 8–12, reddish brown, ellipsoidal. |
8–12, amber-brown, cuboid. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Indigofera kirilowii |
Indigofera colutea |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Oct. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Ruderal areas, edges of woods. | Disturbed areas, roadsides, rocky areas, coastal sand. |
Elevation | 100–150 m. (300–500 ft.) | 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) |
Distribution |
TN; Asia (China, Japan, Korea) [Introduced in North America] |
FL; Asia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in West Indies (Hispaniola, Jamaica), Pacific Islands, Australia] |
Discussion | Indigofera kirilowii has been in cultivation in the United States since about 1899 (A. J. Rehder 1940). It is known in the flora area only from Madison County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In the flora area, Indigofera colutea is known only from Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Galega colutea, I. viscosa | |
Name authority | Maximowicz ex Palibin: Trudy Glavn. Bot. Sada 17: 62, plate 4. (1898) | (Burman f.) Merrill: Philipp. J. Sci. 19: 355. (1921) |
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