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Baptisia tinctoria

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Home Perennial Baptisia tinctoria

Dry soils in open woods and clearings.

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Family: Fabaceae
Height: 0.9 m / 3 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 1 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 3 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Wild Indigo, Horseflyweed Baptisia tinctoria native habitat is Dry soils in open woods and clearings.

Edible Uses

Young shoots - cooked. An asparagus substitute. Some caution is advised, see the notes above on toxicity.

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