EcoFlora - Baptisia australis

Baptisia australis (L.) R. Br.
Family: Fabaceae Blue Wild Indigo Paul Rothrock	Gleason & Cronquist Indiana Flora Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Plants to 15 dm, glabrous, with one or few racemes to 4 dm; petioles 5-18 mm; stipules or some of them persistent until anthesis, lanceolate or lance-ovate, 8-20 mm; lfls oblanceolate to obovate, the larger ones 4-8 cm; bracts caducous; pedicels 5-15 mm; fls 20-27 mm; cal 8-10 mm; pods 3-5 cm, the stipe slightly exceeding the cal; 2n=18. Moist, usually rocky or gravelly soil, woods, and prairies; s. N.Y. to N.C. and n. Ga., w. to Neb. and Tex., and intr. in Vt. May, June. Var. australis, as here described, is replaced w. of the Mississippi R. by var. minor (Lehm.) Fernald, with smaller lfls, slightly larger fls, and more inflated and more evidently stipitate pods. (B. minor) A hybrid of var. minor with no. 2 [Baptisia bracteata Elliott] is B. آicolor Greenm. & Larisey. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 10 Wetland Indicator Status: FACU
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