Visual Identification Guide for Creeping Indigo

Visual Identification Guide

for Creeping Indigo

UF/IFAS Lake County Extension Megan Brew, M.S.

Livestock Agent [email protected]

352.343.4101

In the field Creeping Indigo grows very low to the ground, creeping out in all directions. The leaves may range in size from very small to

approximately the size of a fingernail.

A single “branch” of Creeping Indigo showing a prostrate growth pattern.

Note the long white taproot (quarter for scale)

Seeds are clustered and bean pod shaped (quarter for scale)

The flowers are pink to light purple, conical,

and resemble pea flowers (quarter for

scale)

Leavers are oblong, alternate, and smooth to the touch (quarter

for scale)