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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Amorpha glabra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-18-004:

Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Amorpha glabra

 

COMMON NAME:
Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo


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image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230228_1327

February    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Sometimes there are terminal, spikelike remnants of the fruit-bearing stems in winter, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230228_1328

February    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm090425_036

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230418_2631

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Flowers borne in dense erect terminal racemes, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230418_2634

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm110507_288

May    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Calyx lobes obolete or nearly so or weakly undulate, longest usually < 0.6mm, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm110507_290

May    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm200508_4723

May    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm200508_4725

May    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm200508_4727

May    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Petioles typically much exceeding the width of the lowest leaflet, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of shrubs

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

Ron Lance    rwl73_a

May        

Leaves mostly with 11-19 leaflets, each gland-tipped, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

Ron Lance    rwl73_a2

May        

1-4 terminal racemes, (5)10-28cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm090726_149

July    Buncombe County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm090726_153

July    Buncombe County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Midvein of leaflet terminating in a globose glandular tip, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230706_4284

July    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230720_4609

July    Greenville County    SC

Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm230720_4667

July    Greenville County    SC

Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve

A shrub 1-2m tall, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Amorpha glabra, Mountain Indigo-bush, Appalachian Indigo-bush, Mountain Indigo, Mountain False Indigo

JK Marlow    jkm231010_5945

October    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Legume asymmetrically oblong to obovoid, often curved, conspicuously pustulate-glandular, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Amorpha glabra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-18-004:
Amorpha glabra   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Amorpha glabra

 

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Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to dry-mesic ridgetop and slope forests, primarily in the Blue Ridge escarpment, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in NC, rare in GA & SC

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 11-19 leaflets, usually
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bright purple
5-lobed calyx
1 petal
10 stamens
Superior ovary
Usually bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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