Blue False Indigo (Baptisia Australis) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial

Flower Color:  Indigo Blue

Flower Size:  .5 to 1″ 

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type:  Lupine-like, Pea-like on 12″ spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  –

Foliage Color:  Blue-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  –

Berries:  Attractive seed pods

Berry Color:  Black

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Pollinators

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Clay Soil, Erosion, Dry Soil, Poor Soil, Rabbit, Rocky Soil

Baptisia australis, commonly called Blue False Indigo, is a North American native plant the features attractive indigo-blue lupine-like flowers on 12 inch tall spikes that rise well above the 3 foot high and wide foliage mound in late spring to early summer. The attractive blue-green leaves resemble clover. Inflated seeds pods follow the flowers turning black when dry. If you have kids or grandkids they’ll love shaking the pods just to hear the seeds rattle. Stems with seed pods are great for cutting and use in dried flower arrangements. A very easy plant to grow that is a fine addition to perennial borders, cottage gardens, prairies, meadows and native plant gardens.

The name false indigo refers to the use of this plant by early American colonists as a substitute for Indigofera (true indigo) in making dyes. Rather than the flowers, it’s the plants broken stems that secrete a sap that turns dark blue.

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