222 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Amorpha fruticosa, L. 



A shrub with deep violet-colored flowers, in April and May. 

 Occasionally cultivated for ornament in the North. 



Grows mostly on banks of rivers and creeks, and especially in 

 limestone regions. 



2A. Along Calvert Prong of Warrior River, Blount County. 

 2B. Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



3. Cherokee, Etowah, Calhoun, Talladega and Jefferson Counties. 



5. Rocky banks of Tallapoosa River above Tallassee, Elmore County. 

 6A. Tuscaloosa County. 



7. Sumter, Marengo and Dallas Counties. 



8. Marengo and Dallas Counties. 



9. Black Bluff on Tombigbee River, Sumter Countv. 

 low. Wilcox County. 



11. Clarke and Washington Counties. 



12. Geneva County. 



14. Lower part of Mobile delta. (A. glabra?) 



Amorpha virgata, Small. 



Resembles A. fruticosa in general appearance, but has quite a 

 different habitat, growing in dry woods, mostly on mountains. 

 Blooms in May. 



IB or 2A. "Jackson County, wooded ridges at Gurley's, 1200 feet" 

 (Mohr). (Gurley is in Madison County, but not far from Jackson. If Dr. 

 Mohr's station was on limestone slopes it was in region IB, hut if on the 

 sandstone of the Coal Measures higher up it was in 2A.) 



4. Calhoun, Talladega and Clay Counties. 



5. Cleburne County. On rocky slopes near Coosa and Tallapoosa 

 Rivers in northern part of Elmore County. (These last possibly A. fruti- 

 cosa.) 



A. glabra, Desf., is reported by Dr. Mohr from swamps and marshes 

 near Mobile (region 14 or 15). 



A. nwntana. F. E. Boynton, and A. Tcniicssccnsis. Shuttl., are said by 

 F. E. Boynton ( Biltmore Bot. Studies 1:138,140. 190 ) to occur in Ala- 

 bama, but no localities are specified. One grow'ing along Eight-mile Creek 

 in Cullman County is identified as A. Tcniicssccnsis by Wolf. 



WISTERIA, Nuttall.* (Bradlcia, Adans.. Kranuhia, Raf.) 

 Wisteria frutescens (L.) Poir. (Wild) Wisteria. 



A woody vine with deciduous pinnate leaves, and racemes of 

 light blue flowers, in April. Looks much like the common culti- 

 vated (Asiatic) wisteria, but is smaller, and has fewer flowers. It 

 is said to be occasionally cultivated. 



*This genus was named after Prof. Caspar Wistar, and should have 

 been spelled Wistaria. That spelling has been used in some books, but the 

 modern practice is to stick to the original spelling unless it is too obviously 

 a misprint. 



