Indigofera miniata |
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coastal indigo, western indigo |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, strigose, hairs appressed, silvery. |
Stems | procumbent, diffusely branched, 1–5 dm. |
Leaves | 1–3.5 cm; stipules subulate, 1–7 mm; petiole 0.5–8 cm; stipels absent or of reddish hairs; petiolules 1 mm; leaflets (3 or)5–11(–17), usually alternate, rarely opposite, blades oblanceolate, obovate, or narrowly elliptic, 5–25 × 5 mm, similar in size within a leaf, base cuneate, apex acute or truncate, ± mucronate, surfaces glabrous or adaxially glabrate to densely pubescent. |
Racemes | 2–20-flowered, dense or lax, 1.5–9 cm. |
Peduncles | 1.5–8 cm. |
Pedicels | 1 mm. |
Flowers | 7–12 mm; calyx 4–6 mm, lobes usually long-subulate, sometimes triangular; corolla brick red, salmon pinkish, or salmon orange. |
Legumes | brown, irregularly spreading or deflexed, cylindric, straight, 10–40 mm, leathery, densely sericeous. |
Seeds | 2–8, usually brown, sometimes lighter and brown-speckled, cuboid. |
2n | = 32. |
Indigofera miniata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jan–Oct. |
Habitat | Open woods, creek bottoms, ruderal areas, pinelands, hammocks, urban waste areas. |
Elevation | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; KS; LA; OK; TX; Central America; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); West Indies (Cuba)
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Discussion | Indigofera miniata is sometimes subdivided into vars. floridana, leptosepala, and miniata. They intergrade and are not clearly differentiated. Indigofera mexicana Bentham, I. nana Rydberg, and I. ornithopodioides Chamisso & Schlechtendal are illegitimate names that pertain here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera |
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Synonyms | Anila leptosepala, Astragalus pasqualensis, A. recticarpus, I. argentata, I. cinerea, I. hartwegii, I. leptosepala, I. miniata var. floridana, I. miniata var. leptosepala, I. sphenoides, Orobus coccineus |
Name authority | Ortega: Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 8: 98. (1798) |
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