False Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruticosa
                    
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2017 Photograph, False Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa, Legume or Pea family, Fabaceae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
Also called Desert False Indigo and Bastard Indigo-bush.
These flower spikes are a bit farther along the way to going to seed than spikes that have golden stamens showing.
Jian Zhe Li
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