
Cream Wild Indigo
Baptisia leucophaea
An elegant plant with smooth, waxy leaves and lovely cascading branches of cream-colored, pea-blossom flower clusters. Blooms from early May to mid-June. Later in the year, an entire plant may break off at its base and roll around in the wind as a means of dispersing its seed, similar to a tumbleweed. Attracts bees and butterflies. Not a dye plant.
Water: Dry, Drought Tolerant
Hardiness: Frost Hardy
Habit: 18 to 24” tall
Light: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil: Prairie savannah soils
Origin: The plains and prairies of the United States
Additional Characteristics: Nitrogen Fixer

Cream Wild Indigo