Tags: #purple #poisonous #drought tolerant #white flowers #purple flowers #yellow flowers #native perennials #tough plant #spring flowers #erosion control #disease resistant #highly beneficial coastal plants #NC native #pest resistant #deer resistant #herbaceous perennials #poor soils tolerant #NC Native Pollinator Plant #dry soils tolerant #long livedīaptisia spp. tinctoria, 'Carolina Moonlight', 'Cherries Jubilee' DECADENCE® SERIES, 'Ivory Towers', 'Lemon Meringue', ‘Lunar Eclipse’, 'Purple Smoke', 'Purple Towers', 'Screamin Yellow', 'Twilite Prairieblues' cinerea, 'Blonde Bombshell', 'Blue Towers', B. Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Pinehurst Greenway Pollinator Habitat Garden, Moore County Juniper Level Botanic Gardens: Parking Lot Berms Juniper Level Botanic Gardens: Part Sun-Part Shade Gardens Juniper Level Botanic Gardens: Souto Sun Garden Juniper Level Botanic Gardens: Sunken Pond Garden Crowder Park Prairie and Native Plants Garden Cultivars / Varieties:ī. VIDEO Created by Homegrown featuring Mark Weathington, Director of JC Raulston ArboretumĪdditional video for Baptisia from the Native Plant Picks series from the North Carolina Sea Grant led Coastal Landscapes Initiative. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No significant problems. The three-parted leaves have an alternate arrangement and turn black upon drying.Blooms are white, blue, purple-blue, or yellow and can be irregular and pea shaped. The flowers have four to five petals each and stand up on a raceme or spike.Include indigo in a drought-tolerant garden, a native garden, or a pollinator garden. The fruit is a black, inflated, stalked pod with several seeds. They contrast nicely against light green leaves. The attractive flowers that appear in the spring are typically deep blue, but they can range in colors from pink to yellow to white. The plant has a deep taproot which makes it drought tolerant, but also difficult to transplant. False indigo may be propagated by cuttings or seeds. It is known for being a tough, long-lived plant that tolerates a variety of conditions from drought, poor soil, dry soil, and erosion. It will grow in partial shade to full sun. Its native habitat is woodland borders and open woods. The name is derived from Greek baptisis, which means to dip or immerse. See below Descriptionīaptisia is a genus consisting of erect, native, herbaceous perennials in the Fabaceae (bean) family. Phonetic Spelling bap-TEE-zee-uh This plant has low severity poison characteristics.
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