Amorpha glabra Poir.

Amorpha glabra Desf. (Tabl. 192; hyponym. 1804); Pers Syn. PI. 2: 295. 1807.
Amorpha montana F. Boynton, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 138. 1902.
A glabrous shrub, 1-2 m. high; branches rarely with a few short hairs; leaves 7-16 cm. long, often spreading; petioles 2-3 cm. long; leaflets oval, elliptic, or elliptic-ovate, thin, glabrous on both sides, obtuse, rounded, or often emarginate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, 2-5 cm. long, 1-4 cm. broad; petiolules 2-3 mm. long; racemes usually clustered, 6-15 cm. long, glabrous; calyx about 3 mm. long, glabrous except the ciliate margins, which are undulate-toothed, the lobes being very short and broad, obtuse, rounded, or acutish; banner orbicular-spatulate, with a short claw, 7 mm. long, rich-purple; pod 7-8 mm. long, nearly straight on the upper side, light-brown, with a few small glands; seeds elliptic, brown, 4 mm. long.
Type locality: North America.
Distribution: North Carolina. Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.