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§1 Plant
Amorpha fruticosa L.
vernacular false indigo bush — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Amorpha
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 366 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 77,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 366 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Calhoun 01015
- Chambers 01017
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Clay 01027
- Coffee 01031
- Colbert 01033
- Conecuh 01035
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dallas 01047
- DeKalb 01049
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Fayette 01057
- Hale 01065
- Jackson 01071
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Madison 01089
- Marengo 01091
- Marshall 01095
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Talladega 01121
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Wilcox 01131
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 63 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Phillips 05107
- Pike 05109
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- Sebastian 05131
- Sharp 05135
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Baldwin 13009
- Bartow 13015
- Ben Hill 13017
- Bulloch 13031
- Catoosa 13047
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Columbia 13073
- DeKalb 13089
- Dodge 13091
- Echols 13101
- Elbert 13105
- Floyd 13115
- Glynn 13127
- Gwinnett 13135
- Habersham 13137
- Hall 13139
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Heard 13149
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- McDuffie 13189
- McIntosh 13191
- Morgan 13211
- Newton 13217
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Upson 13293
- Walker 13295
- Washington 13303
- Wayne 13305
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 55 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Ballard 21007
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Bracken 21023
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carroll 21041
- Clinton 21053
- Cumberland 21057
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Gallatin 21077
- Garrard 21079
- Graves 21083
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henderson 21101
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Laurel 21125
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Livingston 21139
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- Mason 21161
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Meade 21163
- Menifee 21165
- Montgomery 21173
- Morgan 21175
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Perry 21193
- Pulaski 21199
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Trimble 21223
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
- Webster 21233
- Wolfe 21237
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMFR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5357407 ↗Record version
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