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Amorpha californica is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name California false indigo.

Amorpha californica
var. californica
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Amorpha
Species:	A. californica
Binomial name
Amorpha californica Nutt.

It is native to California, Arizona, and northern Baja California, where it grows in the California chaparral and woodlands and other chaparral and oak woodlands habitats. It is generally considered an understory plant.[2]

Description

Amorpha californica is a glandular, thorn-less shrub with leaves made up of spiny, oval-shaped leaflets each tipped with a resin gland. The scattered inflorescences are spike-like racemes of flowers, each flower with a single violet petal and ten protruding stamens. The fruit is a legume pod containing usually a single seed.

Subspecies

The standard variety is Amorpha californica var. californica. Amorpha california var. napensis is a rare plant; it only grows around San Francisco and in the North Coast Ranges.[3]

Butterflies

The endemic California dogface butterfly larvae feed on Amorpha californica, along with the Southern dogface and the silver-spotted skipper.[2]

See also

• Amorpha fruticosa

References

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment - Amorpha californica
• USDA Plants Profile: Amorpha californica
• "Amorpha californica". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• Amorpha californica - U.C. Photo gallery
• "Amorpha californica". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• The complete chloroplast genome of the threatened Napa False Indigo Amorpha californica var. napensis Jeps. 1925 (Fabaceae) from Northern California, USA
• Wilbur, Robert L. “A REVISION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN GENUS AMORPHA (LEGUMINOSAE-PSORALEAE).” Rhodora, vol. 77, no. 811, 1975, pp. 337–409. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23311397. Accessed 1 Sep. 2022.

На других языках

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- [en] Amorpha californica

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[ru] Аморфа калифорнийская

Аморфа калифорнийская (лат. Amorpha californica) — листопадный кустарник, вид рода Аморфа (Amorpha) семейства Бобовые (Fabaceae).

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