Taxon: Amorpha fruticosa L.
Genus: Amorpha
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Amorpheae. Also placed in:
Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 2937
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:713. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-Feb-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2011
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6). Accessions:
32 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
SPECIES RESTRICTED AS A STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
-
CT*, WA*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from

- bastard indigo-bush (Source: F Florida
) – English
- bastard-indigo (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- false indigo (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- indigo-bush (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- zi sui huai (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- faux indigo (Source: UPOV
) – French
- Bastardindigo (Source: Zander ed14
) – German
- jogjebissari (Source: F Korea
) – Transcribed Korean
- waessalinamu (Source: Gen Res Cr Ev 44:354) – Transcribed Korean
- falso índigo (Source: UPOV
) – Spanish
- segelbuske (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.] Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine [s.], Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Wyoming [e.] Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.w.] Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Sonora
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Iraq Caucasus: Azerbaijan Siberia: Russian Federation - Kurgan Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye China: China Eastern Asia: Korea
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
- EUROPE
East Europe: Russian Federation - European part Europe
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho [s.w.]
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Southern South America: Argentina [n.]
Cultivated:
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Burkart, A. E., ed.
1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
- Chester, E. W. et al.
1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Cronquist, A. et al.
1972–. Intermountain flora.
- Encke, F. et al.
1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist.
- Hoang, H.-D. et al.
1997. Additional notes to the checklist of Korean cultivated plants (5). Consolidated summary and indexes.
Genet. Resources Crop Evol.
44:354.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- International Legume Database & Information Service.
International Legume Database and Information Service (on-line resource).
- Lee, Y. N.
1997. Flora of Korea.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles.
1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association).
1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
- Mohlenbrock, R. H.
1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:77.
- Office of the Union.
2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union.
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
- Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr.
1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas.
- Scoggan, H. J.
1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- Wilbur, R. L.
1975. A revision of the North American genus Amorpha (Leguminosae-Psoraleae).
Rhodora
77:397.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- Wunderlin, R. P.
1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.
- Yakovlev, G. P. et al.
1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Amorpha fruticosa L.:
Images or nodulation data:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2937 (19 June 2013)
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