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Lindheimer's indigo

hairy indigo, roughhairy indigo

Habit Herbs, perennial, suffrutescent, cinereous-pubescent, hairs silvery greenish, appressed or ascending. Herbs, annual or biennial, brownish hirsute or pilose, hairs long-spreading.
Stems

erect, several from rootstock, sparsely branched distally, 5–15 dm.

erect or sprawling, unbranched or branched, 3–10 dm.

Leaves

8.5–10.5 cm;

stipules sometimes clusters of hairs, 0.5–2 mm;

petiole 1–1.5 cm;

stipels 0.5–1 mm;

petiolules 0.5–1 mm;

leaflets 7–15, opposite, blades obovate, narrowly or broadly oblanceolate, or elliptic, 8–16 × 4–8 mm, base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, surfaces densely pubescent.

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

8–30+-flowered, lax, 5–12 cm.

10–20+-flowered, dense, 6–20 cm.

Peduncles

0.8–1.2 cm.

4–9 cm.

Pedicels

1 mm.

1–2 mm.

Flowers

6–8 mm;

calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes narrowly triangular;

corolla reddish.

6–7 mm;

calyx 3.5–5 mm, lobes setaceous, bristly-plumose;

corolla salmon red to maroon.

Legumes

brown, divergent or reflexed, cylindric, straight or slightly curved to falcate, 18–25 mm, leathery, base bulbous and reddish, cinereous-pubescent.

dark brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 15–22 mm, leathery, hispid.

Seeds

4–6, brown, cuboid.

6–8, greenish, cuboid.

2n

= 16.

= 16.

Indigofera lindheimeriana

Indigofera hirsuta

Phenology Flowering May–Sep. Flowering year-round.
Habitat River and creek bottoms or banks, dry beds, limestone, roadsides. Roadsides, old fields, disturbed woodlands, urban waste areas.
Elevation 200–1300 m. (700–4300 ft.) 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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from FNA
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 lindheimeriana is found in the flora area in southwest Texas, from its eastern extent in Comal and Llano counties west to Brewster and Terrell counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera
Sibling taxa
I. caroliniana, I. colutea, I. decora, I. hirsuta, I. kirilowii, I. miniata, I. oxycarpa, I. pilosa, I. sphaerocarpa, I. spicata, I. suffruticosa, I. texana, I. tinctoria
I. caroliniana, I. colutea, I. decora, I. kirilowii, I. lindheimeriana, I. miniata, I. oxycarpa, I. pilosa, I. sphaerocarpa, I. spicata, I. suffruticosa, I. texana, I. tinctoria
Synonyms Anila lindheimeriana Anila hirsuta
Name authority Scheele: Linnaea 21: 464. (1848) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 751. (1753)
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