Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
When we visited the Ansin Tract Conservation Area on 3-30-2019, we saw false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa) growing along the St. Sebastian River and in other moist places. This plant goes by variety of common names: Bastard false indigo, bastard indigo,…
False indigo, bastard indigo, bastard false indigo, and leadplant are among the many common names for Amorpha fruticosa, a plant found in nearly every state -- and throughout Florida -- in moist places. We saw this plant in flower when…
Read More False indigo — ORCA & Cypress Bend Community Preserve
Golden anthers contrast with dark purple floral tubes on bastard false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa) shown flowering at Cypress Bend Community Preserve on 4-10-2016. Its floral spikes are 2 - 5" long and quite showy. False indigo, a deciduous plant, is found…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 