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Botanical Name
: Baptisia australis
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Common Name
: Wild Blue Indigo
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Type
: Perennial. Returns each spring from same roots, forming expanding clump. Blooms second spring from seed.
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Bloom Time
: Early to mid season
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Flower
: Spikes of pea-like flowers are vivid blue on handsome clover-leaved plants.
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Soil Preferences
: Wild Blue Indigo is a tough plant, native to hot open areas, and often very successful on even poor soils.
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Where To Grow It
: All regions of North America. (Our seeds were produced from hand-gathered stock in New York state.)
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How To Grow It
: Wildflower expert, Viki Ferreniea says it "thrives on neglect" which tells you to get this beautiful plant established, and then let it sprawl and spread on its own. Once you have a clump, it will reward you with brilliant blue flowers each season, and then after bloom, handsome foliage right up until frost.
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Indigenous To
: Pennsylvania south to GA, then west to TX and NE
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