...Variable
...Dry
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read The Genus Baptisia in South Carolina by Bill Stringer.
Native west of the Appalachians; records from east of those mountains are escapes from cultivation. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Baptisia australis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia australis var. australis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Baptisia australis var. australis
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-002:
Baptisia australis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Baptisia australis
COMMON NAME:
Tall Blue Wild Indigo, Streamside Blue Indigo
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JK Marlow jkm0405h_25
May Haywood County NC
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May Haywood County NC
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May Haywood County NC
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JK Marlow jkm160516_737
May Haywood County NC
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Leaves palmately trifoliate; leaflets 1-3" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_baptisia_australis
May
Pea-like flowers deep blue-violet, in a long raceme extending above leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm0407j_28
July Haywood County NC
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Fruits thin-walled, plump, with a long persistent claw-shaped style, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.