Lindheimer's Hoarypea

Cracca lindheimeri (A. Gray) Kuntze, Rev Gen. 175. 1891.
Tephrosia Lindheimeri A. Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 6: 172. 1850.
A perennial herb, with a thick woody root; stem 0.5-1.5 m. long, decumbent or ascending, flexuose, branched, short-pilose; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules subulate, 6-7 mm. long; petiole 1-4 cm. long; leaflets 7-13, broadly obovate, from obtuse to retuse at the apex, silkystrigose on both sides, canescent beneath, 2-3 cm. long, often nearly as wide; racemes subopposite the leaves, elongate, including the peduncle 1-2.5 dm. long, usually 2 at each node; calyx short-villous, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid or deltoid-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm. long, corolla purple, 12-15 mm. long, banner obovate, silky-strigose without; pod about "5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, straight, acute at each end, villous-hirsute, 6-8-seeded.
Type locality: Mesquit prairies on the Llano, Texas.
Distribution: Texas.