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

genus Amorpha - American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides

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

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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Steer+Sheep plots were grazed by steers from mid-April to midjuly and grazed by sheep from early August to early October Scientific name Common name Nectar source Amarpha canescens Leadplant y Amorpha friiticosa False indigobush y Ceanothus americanus New Jersey tea y Morus spp.

Grassland Bird and Butterfly Responses to Sericea Lespedeza Control via Late-Season Grazing Pressure

Rescue and restoration: experimental translocation of Amorpha herbacea Walter var.

Potential production of aspidosperma cylindrocarpon seedlings viarescue seedlings/Potencial de producao de mudas de Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon via resgate de plantulas

Boophilus microplus infection by Beauveria amorpha and Beauveria bassiana: SEM analysis and regulation of subtilisin-like proteases and chitinases.

Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) induce in vitro laminarinasa y quitinasa de Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae)

Apocynaceae M latifolia Millettia pinnata Fabaceae L Millettia pinnata Fabaceae L Neorautanenia Fabaceae W 28 amboensis Tephrosia purpurea Fabaceae P Amorpha fruticosa Fabaceae L Piscidia erythrina Fabaceae T 29 Gymnadenia conopsea Orchidaceae M Bletilla striata Orchidaceae M 30 Taiwania Cupressaceae T cryptomerioides Chamaecyparis Cupressaceae T formosensis Cryptomeria japonica Cupressaceae T 31 Gutierrezia microcephala Asteraceae P Saussurea lappa Asteraceae M Artemisia spp.

Novel Approach to Classify Plants Based on Metabolite-Content Similarity

Partridge pea Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene Leadplant Amorpha canescens Pursh Illinois bundleflower Desmanthus illinoensis (Michx.) MacMill.

Preference of pen-reared northern bobwhite among native plant seeds of the sand sagebrush-mixed prairie

If so, the walnut sphinx caterpillar (Amorpha juglandis) is the first invertebrate known to make phony alarm calls, Jessica Lindsay of the University of Montana in Missoula reported June 12.

Why caterpillars whistle

They occur naturally as constituents of the roots, stems and leaves of many leguminous species of the genera Derris, Lonchocarpus, Tephrosiaand Amorpha. 'Tuba' plant is a woody plant, which grows along the ground, crawling and climbing to other plants.

Biological activity on the extract of Derris elliptica: an optimization approach to investigate the effect of processing parameters on mortality of Artemia salina

Clausen], Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis (L.) Nutt.), New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus L.) and the native, leguminous shrub, leadplant (Amorpha canascens Pursh) (Table 1).

Nitrogen fixing shrubs create soil N fertility patches in native sand dune and tallgrass-prairie communities of Central North America

giant ragweed Ammannia robusta Heer & Regel toothcup Amorpha fruticosa L.

A floristic analysis and comparison of plant communities in Harlan County, Nebraska

Amorpha sp., TAMU (50 ex); San Blas Fort, 18/ XII/1963, 61 m, O'Brien C.W.

Bruquidos (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) asociados a la leguminosa Indigofera Densiflora

Of the 113 native species at our site, twelve species (Asclepias incarnata, Senecio glabellus, Rorippa palustris, Rorippa sessiliflora, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Hibiscus laevis, Salix nigra, Phyla lanceolata, Forestiera acuminata, Amorpha fruticosa, Saururus cernuus, and Mimulus alatus) are almost always found in wetlands in our region.

Evaluating the quality of a disturbed wetland in southwestern Indiana: a survey of native and exotic flora at Vectren Conservation Park

The substances, which have a simple chemical structure, are not only found in liquorice root, but are also in the fruit of the Amorpha fruticosa bush.