Amorpha californica Nutt. is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Amorpha californica Nutt.

Amorpha californica Nutt.

Amorpha californica is a thornless glandular shrub with violet flowers and single-seeded legume fruit.

Family
Genus
Amorpha
Order
Fabales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Amorpha californica Nutt.

Amorpha californica is a glandular, thornless shrub. Its leaves are composed of oval, spiny leaflets, each tipped with a resin gland. The plant produces scattered, spike-like raceme inflorescences holding its flowers. Each individual flower has just one violet petal and ten protruding stamens. The fruit is a legume pod, which usually contains only a single seed.

Photo: (c) Carol Blaney, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Carol Blaney · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Fabales Fabaceae Amorpha

More from Fabaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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