Indigofera lindheimeriana |
Indigofera hirsuta |
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Lindheimer's indigo |
hairy indigo, roughhairy indigo |
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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 |
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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 |
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Anila lindheimeriana | Anila hirsuta |
Name authority | Scheele: Linnaea 21: 464. (1848) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 751. (1753) |
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