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wild indigos
Baptisia
Baptisia (wild indigo, false indigo) is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. The species most commonly found in cultivation is B. australis.
Baptisia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the jaguar flower moth, Schinia jaguarina.
24 branches of this genus, most-observed first
tall blue wild indigo
speciesBaptisia australis
White Wild Indigo Complex
complexBaptisia alba
cream wild-indigo
speciesBaptisia leucophaea
eastern wild indigo
speciesBaptisia tinctoria
Yellow Wild Indigo
speciesBaptisia sphaerocarpa
Nuttall's Wild Indigo
speciesBaptisia nuttalliana
Gopherweed
speciesBaptisia lanceolata
grayhairy wild indigo
speciesBaptisia cinerea
Pineland Wild Indigo
speciesBaptisia lecontei
Catbells
speciesBaptisia perfoliata
longbract wild indigo
speciesBaptisia bracteata
eastern prairie blue wild indigo
speciesBaptisia aberrans
scareweed
speciesBaptisia simplicifolia
spiked wild indigo
speciesBaptisia albescens
Apalachicola wild indigo
speciesBaptisia megacarpa
Florida wild indigo
speciesBaptisia calycosa
cobwebby wild indigo
speciesBaptisia arachnifera
Baptisia × bicolor
hybridBaptisia × bicolor
Baptisia × microphylla
hybridBaptisia × microphylla
Baptisia × variicolor
hybridBaptisia × variicolor
Baptisia × bushii
hybridBaptisia × bushii
Baptisia × sulphurea
hybridBaptisia × sulphurea
Deam's wild indigo
hybridBaptisia × serenae
Baptisia nuttalliana × sphaerocarpa
hybridBaptisia nuttalliana × sphaerocarpa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51723.