Amorpha caroliniana

Amorpha caroliniana Croom, Am. Jour. Sci. 25 : 74. 1833
Amorpha cyanostachva M. A. Curt. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 140. 1835.
? Amorpha pumila Schlecht. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hal. 1848: 8. — Linnaea 24: 185. 1851.
Amorpha fruticosa caroliniana S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. 188. 1878.
Amorpha glabra F. Boynton; Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 626. 1903. Not A . glabra Desf . 1807.
A nearly glabrous shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches glabrous or sparingly pilose; leaves 7-16 cm. long, ascending; petioles about 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 11-25, oval or elliptic, 8-25 mm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, rounded at each end, rather firm and reticulate, dark-green and glossy above, pale and conspicuously glandular-dotted beneath; racemes usually solitary, 5-15 cm. long; calyx about 3 mm. long, glabrous except the margin of the lobes; tube turbinate; lobes short, ciliolate, the upper two broadly triangular and acutish or rounded (A. cyanostachya) , the lower three lance-triangular, subulate-pointed; banner usually blue, broadly cuneate or cuneate-obovate, 4.5-5 mm. long; pod 4-5 mm. long, nearly straight on the back, conspicuously glandular-dotted throughout, 5 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Newbern, North Carolina.
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida.