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§1 Plant
Indigofera hirsuta L.
vernacular hairy indigo — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Indigofera
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 56 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–105 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 198,080
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 56 counties across 3 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 45 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Wakulla 12129
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/INHI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2972082 ↗Record version
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