Indigofera tinctoria L.

Indigofera tinctoria L.

FABACEAE

- Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Indigofera tinctoria L.

Nomencl. ref.: Species Plantarum 2 1753
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: True indigo

English name: dye indigo

English name: Indian indigo

German name: Indigostrauch

Grown habit: Subshrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Indigofera
Species:

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Indigofera tinctoria
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Indigofera tinctoria
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto botanico dell'Università di Padova, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Indigofera tinctoria
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Indigofera tinctoria
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Indigofera tinctoria
P.H.W.Taubert - Leguminosae (1891) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Indigofera tinctoria
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, FL, NC, SC, TN), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Indigofera tinctoria L.
Map for Indigofera tinctoria L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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