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False Indigos
Amorpha
Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. All the species are native to North America, from southern Canada, most of the United States (US), and northern Mexico. They are commonly known as false indigo. The name Amorpha means "deformed" or "without form" in Greek and was given because flowers of this genus only have one petal, unlike the usual "pea-shaped" flowers of the Faboideae subfamily. Amorpha is missing the wing and keel...
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
false indigo bush
speciesAmorpha fruticosa
leadplant
speciesAmorpha canescens
California False Indigo
speciesAmorpha californica
Clusterspike False Indigo
speciesAmorpha herbacea
Fragrant Indigobush
speciesAmorpha nana
Panicled False Indigo
speciesAmorpha paniculata
Mountain False Indigo
speciesAmorpha glabra
Ouachita False Indigo
speciesAmorpha ouachitensis
Shining False Indigo
speciesAmorpha nitens
Carolina lead-plant
speciesAmorpha confusa
Texas amorpha
speciesAmorpha roemeriana
Schwerin's False Indigo
speciesAmorpha schwerinii
Georgia False Indigo
speciesAmorpha georgiana
Smooth False Indigo
speciesAmorpha laevigata
Baja California false indigo
speciesAmorpha apiculata
hybrid false indigo
hybridAmorpha × notha
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57357.