Panicled Indigo Bush

Amorpha paniculata T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 306. 1838
? Amorpha lomentosa Raf. Fl. Ludov. 105. 1817. Amorpha Roemeriana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 461. 1848.
A coarse shrub, 2-4 m. high; branches velutinous-canescent, angled; leaves 1-3 dm. long, ascending; petioles 2-5 cm. long, as well as the rachis tomentose; stipules setaceous, glabrous; leaflets 11-17, oval or elliptic, 2-7 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, strongly veined beneath, rounded or retuse at each end, thick, densely velutinous beneath, sparingly tomentose, becoming glabrate and shining above; racemes in a peduncled panicle, 1-2 dm. long, tomentose; calyx about 4 mm. long; lobes subulate-lanceolate, about 2 mm. long; banner purple, obovate, 3-4 mm. long; pod incurved on the back, 7-8 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, glabrous, conspicuously glandular-dotted.
Type locality : Arkansas.
Distribution: Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.