Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_indigofera_suffruticosa
Indigo
Indigofera suffruticosa
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About Indigo
An erect shrub with pinnate leaves carrying usually nine to seventeen opposite oblong or elliptic leaflets, hairier beneath. Short racemes bear small salmon-pink-to-red pea flowers. Dark-brown narrow pods curve strongly upward and contain four to six dark-brown seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Indigofera suffruticosa
- Common names
- indigo
- Hawaiian names
- ʻinikō
- Other names
- Indigofera suffruticosa · indigo · ʻinikō
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Retain the frozen checklist's ind/nat? origin uncertainty alongside the separately reviewed naturalized island occurrence. Do not make historical origin appear settled.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Erect shrub to 20‒25 dm tall.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An erect shrub with pinnate leaves carrying usually nine to seventeen opposite oblong or elliptic leaflets, hairier beneath. Short racemes bear small salmon-pink-to-red pea flowers. Dark-brown narrow pods curve strongly upward and contain four to six dark-brown seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.