$5.00
Type: Legume
Area: Prairie
Height: 3′ – 5′
Bloom Months: June, July
Color: White
Sun: Part to Full Sun
Moisture: Mesic, Moist
Soil: Clay, Sand, Loam
Host: From Prairie Moon Nursery: This plant is popular with insects. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers and caterpillars of several skippers, butterflies and moths feed on the foliage. These caterpillars include the Southern Dogface, Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, and Eastern Tailed-Blue. Adult Wild Indigo Weevils eat the leaves and flowers of this and other Baptisia species; their grubs attack the seeds in the pods.
Attracts/Benefits: Pollinators
Note: Also referenced as Baptisia alba, deer resistant
Photo credit: Prairie Moon Nursery, Sharon Yiesla
24 in stock
Description from Possibility Place: Almost shrub-like, this plant has multiple horizontal stems that end in long racemes of large white flowers that can extend nearly 2′ in length. Flowers are replaced by oblong, nearly black seed pods that offer their own ornamental characteristics to landscape. This plant is deer resistant and shade tolerant.
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