. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . :. Amorpha fruticosa L. False or Bastard Indigo. River-locust. Fig. 2504. Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. PI. 713. 1753. A shrub 5°-20° high, with pubescent or gla- brous foliage. Leaves thin, petioled, 6'-i6' long; leaflets 11-21, distant, short-stalked, oval or ellip- tic, obtuse and mucronulate, or sometimes slightly emarginate at the apex, rounded or slightly nar- rowed at the
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . :. Amorpha fruticosa L. False or Bastard Indigo. River-locust. Fig. 2504. Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. PI. 713. 1753. A shrub 5°-20° high, with pubescent or gla- brous foliage. Leaves thin, petioled, 6'-i6' long; leaflets 11-21, distant, short-stalked, oval or ellip- tic, obtuse and mucronulate, or sometimes slightly emarginate at the apex, rounded or slightly nar- rowed at the base, I'-2'long, 5"-io" wide, entire; spike-like racemes dense, clustered or solitary, 3'-6' long; flowers short-pedicelled, 3"-4" long; standard violet-purple, 2-z times as long as the calyx, emarginate; stamens exserted; pod gla- brous, glandular, thick-stalked, 3"-4" long, acute, usually 2-seeded. Along streams, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Minne- sota, Saskatchewan. Florida, Colorado and Chihua- hua. -Mso escaped from cultivation in the Eastern and Middle States. May-July. Amorpha anglistifolia fPursh) Boynton, of Texas and Oklahoma, with thick leaflets, acute at both ends, is recorded from Iowa.
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