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Indigofera linifolia
Narrowleaf indigo is a small, low-growing wild legume of dry slopes, grasslands and riverbanks across Africa, Arabia and Asia, grown occasionally as fodder rather than as an ornamental. It thrives in hot, dry, open conditions with well-drained soil and needs little water once established.
Indigofera linifolia, the narrowleaf indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is very widely distributed from Sudan eastwards to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia, and it has been introduced to Réunion and New Caledonia. Livestock can consume it as fodder, and in times of famine humans can grind and bake the seeds into a bread. It grows on dry slopes, grasslands, and riversides.
Pink Flowered Indigo · Natal indigo · Australian indigo · Indigofera cassioides · Indigofera cordifolia · Trailing indigo · Himalayan Indigo · Indigofera himalayensis · Roughhairy indigo · Indigofera howellii · Kirilow's indigo · Indigofera pendula
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Indigofera linifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
