Indigofera texana |
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Texas indigo |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, pubescent, glabrate, hairs crisped, curling. |
Stems | erect to procumbent, branched, 3–5 dm; from stout rootstock. |
Leaves | 2.5–4.5 cm; stipules subulate, 5–8 mm; petiole 0.4–0.6 cm; stipels absent; petiolules 0.5–1 mm; leaflets (3 or)5–9, usually opposite, rarely subopposite, blades obovate, 18–25 × 5–7 mm, terminal leaflet equal to or slightly larger than laterals, primarily wider distally, base cuneate, apex acute, mucronate, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially. |
Racemes | 20–30+-flowered, lax, 3–10 cm. |
Peduncles | 2–5 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–1.5 mm. |
Flowers | 8–10 mm; calyx 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly long-triangular; corolla reddish. |
Legumes | gray-brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 18–27 mm, leathery, glabrate. |
Seeds | 7 or 8, yellowish green becoming brown in age, often with brown mottling, cuboid. |
2n | = 32. |
Indigofera texana |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Granite-based soils. |
Elevation | 200–700 m. (700–2300 ft.) |
Distribution |
TX |
Discussion | Indigofera texana is known only from central Texas, in Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano, Mason, and Menard counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | I. miniata var. texana |
Name authority | Buckley: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 451. (1862) |
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