Herbs, perennial, pubescent, glabrate, hairs crisped, curling. Stems erect to procumbent, branched, 3–5 dm; from stout rootstock. Leaves 2.5–4.5 cm; stipules subulate, 5–8 mm; petiole 0.4–0.6 cm; stipels absent; petiolules 0.5–1 mm; leaflets (3 or)5–9, usually opposite, rarely subopposite, blades obovate, 18–25 × 5–7 mm, terminal leaflet equal to or slightly larger than laterals, primarily wider distally, base cuneate, apex acute, mucronate, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially. Peduncles 2–5 cm. Racemes 20–30+-flowered, lax, 3–10 cm. Pedicels 1–1.5 mm. Flowers 8–10 mm; calyx 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly long-triangular; corolla reddish. Legumes gray-brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 18–27 mm, leathery, glabrate. Seeds 7 or 8, yellowish green becoming brown in age, often with brown mottling, cuboid. 2n = 32.

Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat: Granite-based soils.
Elevation: 200–700 m.

Distribution

• Generated Map
• Legacy Map

Loading map...

Tex.

Discussion

Indigofera texana is known only from central Texas, in Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano, Mason, and Menard counties.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.