Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
|
---|---|
Sonoran indigo, Sonoran indigobush |
|
Habit | Shrubs or subshrubs (woody), strigose, hairs appressed. |
Stems | erect, diffusely branched, 3–15 dm. |
Leaves | 2.5–9 cm; stipules linear-triangular, 1–2 mm; petiole 0.3–1.5 cm; stipels 0.5 mm; petiolules 1.3 mm; leaflets 13–19, opposite, blades elliptic to obovate-oblong, sometimes folded, 20–30 × 2–5 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly rounded or truncate, mucronate, surfaces strigose and pale abaxially, glabrate adaxially. |
Racemes | 20–35+-flowered, lax, 2.5–11 cm. |
Peduncles | 0.8–1.2 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–2 mm. |
Flowers | 4.5–5.2 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes broadly triangular; corolla orange-mauve or pinkish. |
Legumes | brown, divergent or deflexed, ellipsoidal, straight, 3–3.5 mm, leathery, glabrate. |
Seed | 1, brown, bluntly ellipsoidal. |
Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
|
Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, with grasses, oaks. |
Elevation | 1000–1800 m. (3300–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sonora)
|
Discussion | Indigofera sphaerocarpa is known in the flora area from Cochise, Graham, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. A single specimen from the Joshua Tree National Monument, Riverside County, California, was collected in 1973 (Smith & Sawyer 6890, HSC). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Amorpha ovalis, Anila sphaerocarpa |
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 37. (1853) |
Web links |