[Baptisia alba var. macrophylla]'White Wild Indigo'
Plants produce tall spikes of creamy-white colored flowers from 2 to 5 feet tall. Plants grow into dense clumps of sea green colored, with pea-bush like foliage. Forms an attractive accent plant in the garden, grows best in full sun in well draining soils. A hardy perennial that is drought tolerant with deep taproots; plants do not transplant well when mature so plant out into a permanent location when young. White Indigo grows best in rich well-drained soil, but can tolerate some short-term moist conditions. After flower the plants produce fruits that are long spikes of large black pods that are useful for dried flower arrangements.
Zones 2-9.
100 scarified seeds
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