Indigo Bush Traditional Cache

Indigo Bush is along the Inlet. Apparently it likes to be near water and can become invasive. 

Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)

Amorpha fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) known by several common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush. It is found wild in most of the contiguous United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico, but it is probably naturalized in the northeastern and northwestern portion of its current range. The species is also present as an introduced species in Europe, Asia, and other continents. It is often cultivated as an ornamental plant,and some wild populations may be descended from garden escapes.

A. fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice that in width. It is somewhat variable in morphology. The leaves are made up of many hairy, oval-shaped, spine-tipped leaflets.

The inflorescence is a spike-shaped raceme of many flowers, each with a single purple petal and ten protruding stamens with yellow anthers.

The fruit is a legume pod containing one or two seeds.

6'-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-12a-hydroxydalpanol, a rotenoid, can be found in the fruits of A. fruticosa. Several members of the amorfrutin class of compounds have been isolated from the fruits.

This shrub, which often forms thickets on riverbanks and islands, can be weedy or invasive in the northeast.

The genus name, from the Greek amorphos (formless or deformed), alludes to the fact that the flower, with only a single petal (the banner or standard), is unlike the typical pea flowers of the family.

The common name indigo bush can refer to plants in any of several genera in the legume family, including:

    •    Amorpha

    •    Dalea

    •    Psorothamnus

False indigo is a common name for several plants related to indigo; it may refer to:

    •    Amorpha, particularly

    •    Amorpha fruticosa, an invasive species

    •    Baptisia

The cache is a tied in, camoed, "micro" pill bottle, that you have to push hard to open and close. Please BYOP and put everything back as you found it.