Amorpha

There was cactus growing on the bluffs, a pale bristling green against the royal purple of the amorpha. ❋ Evan Hunter (1976)

She must walk among the alder bushes, hardly taller than her outstretched hand, and pluck blossoms from the flowering amorpha, althea, clethra and climbing rose. ❋ Unknown (1926)

Among them the _amorpha_, in full bloom, was remarkable for its large and luxuriant purple clusters. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

Many large boulders, of a very compact sandstone, of various shades of red, some of them of four or five tons in weight, were scattered along the hills; and many beautiful plants in flower, among which the _amorpha canescens_ was a characteristic, enlivened the green of the prairie. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

The _amorpha_ was frequent among the ravines, but the sunflower ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

Along our route the _amorpha_ has been in very abundant but variable bloom -- in some places bending beneath the weight of purple clusters; in others without a flower. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

In the bottoms were frequently seen tradescantia, and on the dry lenches were carduus, cactus, and amorpha. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

In these exposed situations grew but few plants; though, whenever the soil was good and protected from the winds, in the creek bottoms and ravines, and on the slopes, they flourished abundantly; among them the _amorpha_, still retaining its characteristic place. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

We stopped and fastened our boats to some shrubs, (amorpha fruticosa) which grew in abundance out of the clefts of these rocks, and prepared to save ourselves and our little barks if possible. ❋ Unknown (1819)

Corpora praecipitata quaedam amorpha funtt alia autem cryualliiata. ❋ Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1777)

Vitrum efl fubflantta amorpha» pius mu fius pellucida, fbiida» nitens» nunc fimplex» nunc vero compofita. ❋ Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1777)

_amorpha_, which rivals the grass in quantity, though not so forward as it has been found to the eastward. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)