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amorpha

DEFINITIONS OF: amorpha

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n any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers

Types:
Amorpha canescens, lead plant, leadplant
shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore
Amorpha californica, bastard indigo, false indigo
an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
Amorpha fruticosa, bastard indigo, false indigo
dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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