![]() ![]() Fruit: Fruit Color: Black Fruit Value To Gardener: Good Dried Showy Display/Harvest Time: Winter Fruit Type: Legume Fruit Length: 1-3 inches Fruit Width: 1-3 inches Fruit Description: Puffy, inflated seed pods filled with many seeds appear after bloom.Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay Soil pH: Acid (Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Native Plant Perennial Maintenance: Low.Play Value: Buffer Particularly Resistant To (Insects/Diseases/Other Problems): Drought, salt, poor soil, rabbit, erosion, dry soil, clay soil, shallow-rocky soil, highly resistant to deer damage Dimensions: Height: 3 ft. This plant is also a larval host plant for a variety of butterflies including: Orange sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, Frosted Elfin, Eastern Tailed Blue, Hoary Edge, and Wild Indigo Duskywing. Life Cycle: Perennial Recommended Propagation Strategy: Root Cutting Seed Country Or Region Of Origin: Central & Eastern U.S.A Distribution: PA south to NC and TN Fire Risk Rating: medium flammability Wildlife Value: Its flowers are attractive to butterflies, bees, and other insects. The beautiful blue flowers have been used to make a blue dye nearly comparable to dye made from the flowers of indigo. ![]() Attributes: Genus: Baptisia Species: australis Family: Fabaceae Uses (Ethnobotany): Uses by indigenous people included rattles (from the ripened seed pods) for children and blue dye.Tags: #showy flowers #full sun tolerant #drought tolerant #wildlife plant #native perennials #blue flowers #salt tolerant #cottage garden #rabbit resistant #erosion control #showy fruits #NC native #dye plant #deer resistant #Hoary edge #Frosted elfin #long lifespan #dried arrangements #poor soils tolerant #larval host plant #NC Native Pollinator Plant #Wild Indigo Duskywing #rocky soils tolerant #clay soils tolerant #blue dye plant #dry soils tolerant #butterfly friendly #partial shade tolerant #HS302 #shallow soil tolerant #woodland garden #eastern tailed-blue butterfly #clouded sulphur butterfly #orange sulphur butterfly #stormwater demo garden orange co #NC Wildflower of the Year #landscape plant sleuths course 'Carolina Moonlight', 'Screeming Yellow', var. Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Plant Walls and Hedges Lake Wall Garden Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO created by Andy Pulte for “Landscape Plant Identification, Taxonomy and Morphology” a plant identification course offered by the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee. If plants get tall in partial shade, a support may be helpful. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: No major diseases or insects problems. tinctoria, a yellow-flowered species of Baptisia, is also native to the eastern USA and grows well in warm, sunny gardens.įire Risk: This plant has a medium flammability rating.īlooms: Spring Nut/Fruit/Seed: Late summer ![]() This plant was selected as the 1992 NC Wildflower of the Year, a program managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden with some financial support from the Garden Club of North Carolina.Īnother plant option: B. If you have different colored cultivars and allow them to seed, they may hybridize and produce different colors. Cuttings taken in April or May will also root fairly easily if they are taken while the growth is still soft. The best way to propagate this plant is to collect seeds in late summer as soon as they mature and sow them directly where you want them to grow, but they may not grow into a flowering plant until years later. If you desire a round appearance, would prefer to not add support to the plant, and do not want the seed pods to develop, then after the flowers bloom (but before the seed pods set), you could prune back the leaves. The bright, indigo blue flowers are attractive when combined with yellow or white flowering perennials. It forms tall clumps which are especially attractive planted next to wooden fences. It grows from 3 to 4 feet tall, and with its showy blue flowers it is a spring highlight. Plant it in full sun to part shade but in the shade it tends to get leggy and droop over. See below Descriptionīlue False Indigo is a native herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family that grows in forests or natural areas in woodland borders. Phonetic Spelling bap-TEE-zee-uh aw-STRAL-iss This plant has low severity poison characteristics. ![]()
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