Favorite False Indigo Perennial
The False Indigo Baptisia Australis has lupine shaped flowers standout in any garden and are commonly used as a showstopper in cut flower arrangements.
False indigo perennial. One of the greatest joys in life is watching the perennials in your garden emerge every spring. After the first two seasons the blooms are increasingly showy as the plant matures. Baptisia or false indigo is one of those resilient native plants you can count on to bloom and thrive for decades.
Baptisia Pink Lemonade False Indigo is an upright densely branched perennial bearing sturdy spikes of pea-shaped soft yellow flowers that age to pink and mauve-lavender in late spring to early summer. If your zone is equal to or higher than the zone listed for the plant it will be hardy for you and thrive in your climate. In its first few years this long-lived plant develops mostly below ground.
Cultivar with bi-color effect on one plant - pink-mauve flower that age to nearly white. Blue green foliage is topped with spires of lupine-like flowers in the spring. Black seedpods appear after the flowers-attractive in dried arrangements.
Blue False Indigo Baptisia australis is a large bush-like perennial with dense clusters of deep blue flowers on long upright spikes. This plant is hardy in zones 4 - 9 Zones are based on the lowest average temperature an area is expected to receive during the winter. Baptisia is exceptionally long-lived so choose a good shrub-sized space and enjoy its carefree nature.
In addition to it being long lived baptisia also provides a long season of interest beginning in spring and lasting well into fall. If your zone is equal to or higher than the zone listed for the plant it will be hardy for you and thrive in your climate. Also known as false indigo the flowers were once used by Native Americans and early European settlers as a dye before true indigo became available.
Baptisia Plum Rosy - FALSE INDIGO PLUM ROSY. False Indigo provides an arresting presence in the garden. In spring this native to the North American prairies bears spikes of pea-shaped indigo blue flowers resembling Lupines.