Indigofera miniataOrtega

Scarlet Pea

WFO wfo-0000173646 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Indigofera miniata, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202671351
Indigofera miniata, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. b saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202556134
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194560042
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal
fig. d Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190704371
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. e Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198457845
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Morgan Hay
fig. f Morgan Hay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193320773
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. g Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193875764
Indigofera miniata, photographed by Liliana Ramírez-Freire
fig. h Liliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194564985

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Flowering n = 892 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 892 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anil leptosepala (Nutt.) Kuntze
  • Anil ornithopodioides Kuntze
  • Anila acutifolia (Schltdl.) Kuntze
  • Anila leptosepala (Nutt.) Kuntze
  • Indigofera acutifolia Schltdl.
  • Indigofera acutifolia Schltdl.
  • Indigofera argentata Rydb.
  • Indigofera brevipes (S.Watson) Rydb.
  • Indigofera cinerea Buckley
  • Indigofera cubensis Urb.
  • Indigofera hartwegii Rydb.
  • Indigofera leptosepala Torr. & A.Gray
  • Indigofera leptosepala Nutt.
  • Indigofera leptosepala var. angustata S.Watson
  • Indigofera leptosepala var. argentata A.Gray
  • Indigofera leptosepala var. brevipes S.Watson
  • Indigofera mexicana Benth.
  • Indigofera miniata var. florida Isely
  • Indigofera miniata var. leptosepala (Nutt.) B.L.Turner
  • Indigofera miniata var. miniata
  • Indigofera miniata var. texana (Buckley) B.L.Turner
  • Indigofera nana Rydb.
  • Indigofera ornithopodioides Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Indigofera ornithopodioides Schum. & Thonn.

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.