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Texas indigo

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

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Granite-based soils.
Elevation 200–700 m. (700–2300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Indigofera
Sibling taxa
I. caroliniana, I. colutea, I. decora, I. hirsuta, I. kirilowii, I. lindheimeriana, I. miniata, I. oxycarpa, I. pilosa, I. sphaerocarpa, I. spicata, I. suffruticosa, I. tinctoria
Synonyms I. miniata var. texana
Name authority Buckley: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 451. (1862)
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