Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Smooth False Indigo, Smooth Indigo-Bush, Smooth Indigobush
Description
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: purple
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 4-6' tall.
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
()
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Amorpha cyanostachya Torr. & A. Gray • Amorpha herbacea var. boyntoni C. K. Schneid. • Amorpha herbacea var. typica C. K. Schneid. • Amorpha pubescens Willd. • Amorpha pumila Michx.
Notes
Publishing author
: Nutt. Publication
: Fl.
N. Amer. (Torr. & A.
Gray) 1: 306 1838 [Oct 1838]
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan: Perennial
Similar Species
Members of the genus Amorpha
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. californica (California False Indigo) · A. californica var. californica (California False Indigo) · A. californica var. napensis (Napa False Indigo) · A. canescens (Downy Indigobush) · A. crenulata (Crenulate Lead-Plant) · A. fruticosa (Bastard Indigo) · A. georgiana (Georgia False Indigo) · A. georgiana var. confusa (Georgia False Indigo) · A. georgiana var. georgiana (Georgia False Indigo) · A. glabra (Mountain False Indigo) · A. herbacea (Cluster-Spike Indigo-Bush) · A. herbacea var. crenulata (Clusterspike False Indigo) · A. herbacea var. floridana (Crenulate Lead-Plant) · A. herbacea var. herbacea (Clusterspike False Indigo) · A. laevigata (Smooth False Indigo) · A. nana (Dwarf False Indigo) · A. nitens (Shining False Indigo) · A. notha (Notha Indigobush) · A. ouachitensis (Ouachita False Indigo) · A. paniculata (Panicled False Indigo) · A. roemeriana (Roemer Amorpha) · A. schwerinii (Piedmont Indigo-Bush) · A. x notha (Notha Indigobush)
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Further Reading
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 337.
- Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1907 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 158, p. 29, p. 724, p. 854.
- Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunkel Small. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 624, p. 625, p. 625.
- National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 21.
- Native woody plants of the United States, their erosion-control and wildlife values. Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938. url p. 51.
- Small, J. K. Flora of the southeastern United States;being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian /by John Kunkel Small. .. 1903 New York: The author, 1903. url p. 624.
- Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848-1916. url p. 49.
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 332.
- Torrey, J. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior /by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner. 2(1) 1859 Washington: C. Wendell, printer, 1857-59. url p. 53.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3874059
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11618
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638393
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330883-2
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25378
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB08080
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: AMLA2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 20917
