Baptisia cinerea

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Overview

Vulnerable

Common Names

Description

Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 258 meters (0 to 846 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Baptisia cinerea (Raf.) Fern. & B. G. Schubert
2. Baptisia cinerea (Raf.) Fern. & Schub.
3. Lasinia cinerea Raf.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Rhodora 50:201. 1948

Name verified on 16-Mar-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 16-Mar-1998

Similar Species

Members of the genus Baptisia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 101 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

B. alba (Thin Pod White Wild Indigo) · B. alba 'Pendula' (White False Indigo) · B. alba var. alba (White False Indigo) · B. alba var. macrophylla (White False Indigo) · B. alba 'Wayne's World' · B. albescens · B. albiflora · B. arachnifera (Cobwebby Wild Indigo) · B. australis (Blue False Indigo) · B. australis 'Caspian Blue' · B. australis 'Exaltata' · B. australis 'Navy Blue' · B. australis var. aberrans (Blue False Indigo) · B. australis var. australis (Blue False Indigo) · B. australis var. minor (Blue False Indigo) · B. australis var. minor 'Blue Pearls' · B. bicolor (Bicolor Wild Indigo) · B. bracteata (Buffalo Pea False Indigo) · B. bracteata var. bracteata (Longbract Wild Indigo) · B. bracteata var. glabrescens (Long-Bracted Wild Indigo) · B. bracteata var. laevicaulis (Longbract Wild Indigo) · B. bracteata var. leucophaea · B. bushii · B. caerulea · B. calycosa (Pine Land Wild-Indigo) · B. calycosa var. calycosa (Canby's Wild Indigo) · B. calycosa var. villosa (Pine Land Wild-Indigo) · B. 'Carolina Moonlight' (False Indigo) · B. 'Chocolate Chip' · B. cinerea (Grayhairy Wild Indigo) · B. confusa · B. cuneata · B. deamii · B. elliptica · B. exaltata · B. fragilis · B. fraxinifolia · B. fulva (Wild Indigo) · B. hirsuta · B. hirsuta var. villosa · B. hugeri · B. hybrid · B. intercalata · B. intercalata var. bracteata · B. intermedia · B. lactea · B. lactea var. obovata · B. laevicaulis · B. lanceolata (Lance-Leaf False Indigo) · B. lanceolata texana · B. lanceolata var. lanceolata (Gopherweed) · B. lanceolata var. tomentosa (Tomentose Gopherweed) · B. lecontei (Pineland Wild Indigo) · B. lecontii · B. leucantha · B. leucophaea · B. leucophaea 'Butterball' · B. macilenta · B. megacarpa (Apalachicola Wild Indigo) · B. microphylla (Small Leaf Wild Indigo) · B. 'Midnight Prairie Blues' · B. minor · B. mollis · B. nepalensis · B. nuculifera · B. nuttalliana (Nuttall's Wild Indigo) · B. oxyphylla · B. pendula · B. perfoliata (Eucalyptus Wild Indigo) · B. pinetorum · B. psammophila · B. 'Purple Smoke' · B. riparia · B. saligna · B. serenae (Serene Wild Indigo) · B. simplicifolia (Coastal-Plain Wild-Indigo) · B. 'Solar Flare' · B. sphaerocarpa (False Yellow Indigo) · B. sphaerocarpa 'Screamin' Yellow' (False Yellow Indigo) · B. 'Starlite Prairieblues' · B. stipulacea · B. stricta · B. sulphurea (Sulphur Wild Indigo) · B. texana · B. tinctoria (Yellow Wild-Indigo) · B. tinctoria var. creba · B. 'Twilite Praire Blues' (False Indigo) · B. 'Twilite Prairieblues' · B. uniflora · B. variicolor (Wild Indigo) · B. versicolor · B. vespertina · B. vespertina var. minor · B. villosa · B. viridis · B. x bushii · B. x fulva (Wild Indigo) · B. x microphylla · B. x 'Purple Smoke' (Blue False Indigo) · B. x serenae

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Further Reading

• Isely, D. 1981. Leguminosae of the United States. III. Subfamily Papilionoideae: tribes Sophoreae, Podalyrieae, and Loteae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(3):72.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii). (Leg US)
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 5, 2007.
• Cavalcante de Lima H 1992/1993 (from ILDIS).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3874565
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-6766
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:29298-2
• GRIN Nomen Number: 405913
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 26472
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB0G070
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BACI
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 22866

Footnotes

1. Mean = 64.380 meters (211.220 feet), Standard Deviation = 51.220 based on 52 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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