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The plant produces fruits in the form of hairy legumes each with one seed inside. The flower and leafing pattern is similar to Amorpha fruticosa , however, A. canescens typically only grows to be 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) high and prefers drier habitats whereas A. fruticosa can grow to be 5 or 6 meters (16 or 20 ft) high and lives in wetter areas.
Baptisia alba, commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is native in central and eastern North America, [1] and is typically found in open woodland areas and prairies with tall grasslands. [2] The plant is typically 2 to 3 feet (0.61 to 0.91 m) tall, but can be ...
Baptisia bracteata, otherwise known as longbract wild indigo, [1] long-bract wild indigo, long-bracted wild indigo, plains wild indigo, [2] cream false indigo, [3] or cream wild indigo, [4] is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Fabaceae (bean) family that is native to the central and eastern United States.
Baptisia australis, commonly known as blue wild indigo or blue false indigo, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae (legumes). It is a perennial herb native to much of central and eastern North America and is particularly common in the Midwest, but it has also been introduced well beyond its natural range. [ 5 ]
Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Guatemalan indigo, small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, wild indigo, and anil, [2] is a flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. Anil is native to the subtropical and tropical Americas , including the Southern United States , the Caribbean , Mexico , Central America , and South ...
Aeschynomene indica is a species of flowering plant in the legume family.Common names include Indian jointvetch, kat sola, [2] budda pea, curly indigo, hard sola, northern jointvetch, [3] indische Schampflanze (), angiquinho, maricazinho, papquinha, pinheirinho (Brazilian Portuguese), [4] he meng (), kusanemu (), diya siyambala (), and ikin sihk ().
Scraps of Indigo-dyed fabric likely dyed with plants from the genus Indigofera discovered at Huaca Prieta predate Egyptian indigo-dyed fabrics by more than 1,500 years. [8] Colonial planters in the Caribbean grew indigo and transplanted its cultivation when they settled in the colony of South Carolina and North Carolina where people of the ...
Indigofera linnaei, known as Birdsville indigo and nine-leaved indigo, is a species of leguminous shrub in the genus Indigofera (family Fabaceae). The genus name, Indigofera , is derived from Latin and means bearing/containing indigo (a purple dye originally obtained from some Indigofera species), while linnaei derives from Linnaeus .