Indigofera procumbens

Indigofera procumbens, the trailing indigo and in Afrikaans the lewertjie (little liver), is a trailing or spreading perennial reaching 10 cm in height. It may spread from underground stems.

The leaves are digitately trifoliolate, the leaflets obovate with entire margins. The blades are hairless or sparsely hairy, folded slightly along their midribs, sometimes with a tiny mucro at the tip.

The orange, copper, rose or purple flowers grow in racemes on fleshy stalks. Flowering happens in winter to midspring.

The distribution in the Western Cape is along the west coast and inland to Clanwilliam and Worcester. The plant was seen in the Tinie Versfeld Wildflower Reserve in August.

The habitat is coastal fynbos and low-lying renosterveld. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).