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Trailing Indigo

Indigofera spicata

Found in dry, disturbed areas, hammocks, dunes. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 59 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

12CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Indigofera

  • Anticarsia gemmatalisVelvetbean Caterpillar Moth
  • Cecropterus lyciadesHoary Edge
  • Eurema dairaBarred Yellow, Barred Sulphur
  • Gesta zaruccoZarucco Duskywing
  • Helicoverpa zeaCorn Earworm Moth
  • Hemiargus ceraunusCeraunus Blue, Antillean Blue
  • Leptotes cassiusCassius Blue, Tropical Striped Blue
  • Phoebis sennaeCloudless Sulphur
  • Zerene cesoniaSouthern Dogface
  • Dichomeris acuminatus
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  • Dichomeris nenia
  • Metephestia simplicula
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Fabaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rankSNA
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source

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