Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
Indigofera caroliniana |
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Sonoran indigo, Sonoran indigobush |
Carolina indigo |
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Habit | Shrubs or subshrubs (woody), strigose, hairs appressed. | Herbs, perennial, herbaceous or suffrutescent, sparsely strigose, hairs appressed. |
Stems | erect, diffusely branched, 3–15 dm. |
erect or ascending, often bushy, branched, 7–15 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. |
2–8.5 cm; stipules narrowly triangular, 0.5–1 mm; petiole 0.5–1.3 cm; stipels 0.5–1 mm; petiolules 1–1.3 mm; leaflets (7 or)9–13, ± opposite, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 8–20(–25) × 2–12 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces strigulose, pale abaxially. |
Racemes | 20–35+-flowered, lax, 2.5–11 cm. |
15–40-flowered, lax, 4–12 cm. |
Peduncles | 0.8–1.2 cm. |
1–2 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–2 mm. |
1–2(–3) mm. |
Flowers | 4.5–5.2 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes broadly triangular; corolla orange-mauve or pinkish. |
6–9 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes deltate; corolla dark pinkish buff to ochroleucous. |
Legumes | brown, divergent or deflexed, ellipsoidal, straight, 3–3.5 mm, leathery, glabrate. |
dark brown, deflexed, ovoid or oblong, straight, 7–9 mm, woody, glabrate or sparsely strigulose. |
Seed(s) | 1, brown, bluntly ellipsoidal. |
2 or 3, yellowish tan, bluntly ellipsoidal. |
Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
Indigofera caroliniana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, with grasses, oaks. | Pinelands, pine-palmetto, scrub oak communities, sandhills, hammocks, roadsides. |
Elevation | 1000–1800 m. (3300–5900 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sonora)
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AL; FL; GA; LA; NC; SC
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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.) |
Indigofera caroliniana Walter is an illegitimate later homonym that pertains here; the name by Walter is also the basis of Anila caroliniana. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Amorpha ovalis, Anila sphaerocarpa | Anila caroliniana, I. disperma |
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 37. (1853) | Miller: Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Indigofera no. 3. (1768) |
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