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Carolina indigo

Indigofera caroliniana

Also called Wild Indigo

Carolina indigo
Photo: Karen Guin, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Native range
SE. U.S.A.
Climate
subtropical

About

Indigofera caroliniana, the Carolina indigo, is a suffruticose herbaceous plant in the legume family that is endemic to the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States.

Where it grows

Indigofera caroliniana is found from Eastern North Carolina south to South Florida and west to Southeastern Louisiana. It grows in longleaf pine sandhills, maritime forests, Florida scrub, and other sandy forests and woodlands.

Other Indigofera plants

Tick Indigo · Pink Flowered Indigo · Indigofera ammobia · Natal indigo · Indigofera astragalina · Australian indigo · Basedow's Indigo · Indigofera candicans · Indigofera cassioides · Indigofera cordifolia · Chinese indigo · Indigofera galegoides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Indigofera caroliniana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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