Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
Indigofera colutea |
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Sonoran indigo, Sonoran indigobush |
rusty indigo |
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Habit | Shrubs or subshrubs (woody), strigose, hairs appressed. | Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, pubescent, hairs long, simple, erect, spreading, glandular, intermixed with appressed hairs. |
Stems | erect, diffusely branched, 3–15 dm. |
ascending and spreading or prostrate, branched, 3–30 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. |
1.5–4.5 cm; stipules narrowly linear, 2.5–3.5 mm; petiole 1–1.5 cm; stipels of brown hairs; petiolules 0.5 mm; leaflets 5–11, sometimes subopposite or alternate proximally, opposite distally, blades elliptic or obovate, 7–14 × 3–4 mm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, apiculate, surfaces pubescent, hairs erect, spreading, and appressed. |
Racemes | 20–35+-flowered, lax, 2.5–11 cm. |
3–10-flowered, lax, 2.5–3.5 cm. |
Peduncles | 0.8–1.2 cm. |
0.7–1.2 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–2 mm. |
0.5–1 mm. |
Flowers | 4.5–5.2 mm; calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes broadly triangular; corolla orange-mauve or pinkish. |
2.5–3 mm; calyx 1.5–1.9 mm, lobes subulate; corolla reddish or salmon pink. |
Legumes | brown, divergent or deflexed, ellipsoidal, straight, 3–3.5 mm, leathery, glabrate. |
brown, spreading, slightly deflexed, or slightly ascending, cylindric, straight, 18–26 mm, papery, pubescent. |
Seed(s) | 1, brown, bluntly ellipsoidal. |
8–12, amber-brown, cuboid. |
2n | = 16. |
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Indigofera sphaerocarpa |
Indigofera colutea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, with grasses, oaks. | Disturbed areas, roadsides, rocky areas, coastal sand. |
Elevation | 1000–1800 m. (3300–5900 ft.) | 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sonora)
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FL; Asia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in West Indies (Hispaniola, Jamaica), Pacific Islands, Australia] |
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.) |
In the flora area, Indigofera colutea is known only from Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties. (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 | Galega colutea, I. viscosa |
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 37. (1853) | (Burman f.) Merrill: Philipp. J. Sci. 19: 355. (1921) |
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