Panicled False Indigo
Amorpha paniculatanative · Central Texas
Panicled False Indigo is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 4–9 ft tall and 18 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and high water. Blooms orange and purple in spring and summer.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 4–9 ft
- Spread
- 18 ft
- Bloom
- Spring, Summer · orange, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on loam, moist, mud, poor drainage, sand
Where it grows
Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Floodplains and Low Terraces
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.