{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox | name = George's indigo | image = Indigofera georgei.jpg | image_caption = | status = | taxon = Indigofera georgei | authority = E.Pritz.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Indigofera georgei'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/66683 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> | synonyms =
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'''''Indigofera georgei''''' commonly known as '''George's indigo'''<ref name="RBGSA">{{cite book |last1=Kutsche |first1=Frank |last2=Lay |first2=Brendan |last3=Croft |first3=Tim |last4=Kellermann |first4=Jurgen |title=Plants of Outback South Australia |date=2013 |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |location=Adelaide |isbn=9781922027603 |page=101}}</ref> or '''bovine indigo'''<ref name="FB">{{cite web |title=''Indigofera georgei'' |url=https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3974 |website=Florabase-the Western Australian flora |publisher=Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions |access-date=13 June 2025}}</ref> is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and grows in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It has greyish green leaves and mauve to red flowers.
==Description== ''Indigofera georgei'' is a decumbent or upright broom-like shrub with woody, ribbed stems covered in whitish woolly hairs. Leaves are 3-7 leaflets, alternate, {{cvt|10-18|mm}} long, {{cvt|4-8|mm}} wide and rounded at the apex. Flowers are mauve to red, pea-like and borne in spikes. Flowering occurs from May to September and the fruit is a linear pod, {{cvt|2-35|mm}} long, {{cvt|2-3|mm}} wide and covered in white hairs.<ref name="RBGSA"/><ref name="FB"/>
==Taxonomy and naming== ''Indigofera georgei'' was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel and the description was published in ''Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie''.<ref name="BHL">{{cite journal |last1=Pritzel |first1=Ernst |title=''Indigofera georgei'' |journal=Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie |date=1905 |volume=35 |issue=2-3 |page=268 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/126739#page/297/mode/1up |access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref><ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Indigofera georgei'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/474653 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> The specific epithet (''georgei'') is named in honor of William James George.<ref name="ASG">{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |last2=Sharr |first2=F.A |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables |location=Kardinya |isbn=9780958034197 |page=210 |edition=4th}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== George's indigo grows on rocky hill slopes, sandy soils and stony clays in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Indigofera georgei'' |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499380-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Kew |access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}}
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georgei Category:Flora of Queensland Category:Flora of South Australia Category:Flora of Western Australia Category:Flora of the Northern Territory Category:Plants described in 1904