Baptisia tinctoria

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Common Name:  Small Yellow Wild Indigo

Full to part sun, moderately wet to dry moisture level, most soils except clay, slightly acid to neutral pH.  3 ft. height, blooms in summer, yellow flowers, spreads slowly by seed.

Germination Code: C(10), H, I

Native Region:  Blue Ridge Province of east Tennessee, Cumberland Plateau, and Maury County

Legume that likes open, sandy dry woods.  Attracts butterflies and bees.

Small Yellow Wild Indigo - Baptisia tinctoria
Photo Courtesy Prairie Moon Nursery http://www.prairiemoon.com/