Indigofera lindheimeriana |
Indigofera spicata |
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Lindheimer's indigo |
creeping indigo, trailing indigo |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, suffrutescent, cinereous-pubescent, hairs silvery greenish, appressed or ascending. | Herbs, perennial, densely strigulose to glabrate, hairs appressed. |
Stems | erect, several from rootstock, sparsely branched distally, 5–15 dm. |
prostrate, often mat-forming, branching freely, 1–3 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. |
1–7.5 cm; stipules deltate to lanceolate, 5–7(–9) mm; petiole 0.1–0.2 cm; stipels absent or of a few hairs; petiolules 1 mm; leaflets 3–9, alternate, blades obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 5–30 × 2–18 mm, terminal leaflet usually larger than laterals, base cuneate, apex rounded to truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
Racemes | 8–30+-flowered, lax, 5–12 cm. |
20–40+-flowered, dense, 4–9 cm. |
Peduncles | 0.8–1.2 cm. |
0.5–1 cm. |
Pedicels | 1 mm. |
0.5–1 mm. |
Flowers | 6–8 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes narrowly triangular; corolla reddish. |
6–8 mm; calyx 2.5–4 mm, lobes subulate; corolla pinkish salmon to pale carmine. |
Legumes | brown, divergent or reflexed, cylindric, straight or slightly curved to falcate, 18–25 mm, leathery, base bulbous and reddish, cinereous-pubescent. |
brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 10–20 mm, leathery, strigulose. |
Seeds | 4–6, brown, cuboid. |
4–9, greenish, cuboid. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Indigofera lindheimeriana |
Indigofera spicata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | River and creek bottoms or banks, dry beds, limestone, roadsides. | Disturbed, ruderal areas, roadsides, lawns, hammocks, beaches. |
Elevation | 200–1300 m. (700–4300 ft.) | 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León) |
AL; FL; GA; SC; Africa [Introduced also in Mexico, West Indies (Bahamas, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), Central America, South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana), Pacific Islands (Hawaii), 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.) |
Indigofera spicata has been confused with I. hendecaphylla Jacquin (sometimes spelled incorrectly as endecaphylla); distinctions between them were clarified by D. J. Du Puy et al. (1993) and A. S. Weakley et al (2018). The former is toxic to some grazing animals and has been linked to a fatal central nervous system syndrome in horses (J. F. Morton 1989). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Anila lindheimeriana | |
Name authority | Scheele: Linnaea 21: 464. (1848) | Forsskål: Fl. Aegypt.-Arab., 138. (1775) |
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