OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 15 taxa.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Gopherweed, Catbells

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia perfoliata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia perfoliata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia perfoliata 098-09-001   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills

Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Hairy Rattleweed, Hairy Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia arachnifera   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia arachnifera   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills

Rare

Native to Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Tall Blue Wild Indigo, Streamside Blue Indigo, Tall Blue Baptisia

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia australis   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia australis var. australis   FAMILY: Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia australis 098-09-002   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Riverbank scour areas, gravel bars, and disturbed areas (where persisting from cultivation)

Rare or waif(s)

Native to Georgia & TN & northwards (original range obscured by cultivation)

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Eastern Prairie Blue Wild Indigo, Glade Wild Indigo, Glade Blue Wild Indigo, Glade Blue Baptisia

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia aberrans   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia australis var. aberrans   FAMILY: Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia australis 098-09-002?   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Glades, barrens, and open woodlands over limestone (or other calcareous rocks) and diabase (or other mafic rocks), in areas that were formerly prairies, barrens, glades, or oak savannas

Rare

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia cinerea 098-09-003   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy woods

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (where it is a narrow endemic), rare elsewhere

Native to the Carolinas

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Creamy Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia bracteata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia bracteata var. bracteata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia bracteata 098-09-004   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Dry ridgetop woodlands and forests, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands

Uncommon (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: longbract wild indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia leucophaea +   FAMILY: Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Look for it in pinelands and, depending on variety, woodlands or coastal prairies

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Gopherweed, Lanceleaf Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia lanceolata var. lanceolata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia lanceolata var. lanceolata   FAMILY: Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia lanceolata 098-09-006   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry pine flatwoods

Common in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Nuttall's Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia nuttalliana   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia nuttalliana   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Woodlands and prairies

Native: south central US

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Horsefly Weed, Yellow Wild Indigo, Yellow False-indigo, Rattleweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia tinctoria   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia tinctoria   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia tinctoria 098-09-007   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, xeric oak and pine woodlands, ridges, woodland edges, cobblebars, and roadbanks

Common (rare in GA Piedmont & GA Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: a hybrid Wild Indigo

Baptisia ×serenae

PLANTS National Database: Baptisia ×serenae [albescens × tinctoria]   FAMILY: Fabaceae

Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia serenae 098-09-008   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Rare?

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo, Spiked Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia albescens   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia albescens   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia alba 098-09-009   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Dry woodlands, pine flatwoods, roadsides

Uncommon (rare in GA & NC Mountains) (rare in GA Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Thick-pod White Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia alba   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia alba var. alba   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Baptisia pendula 098-09-010   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Dry woodlands, pine flatwoods, roadsides

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: white wild indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia lactea   FAMILY: Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Baptisia alba var. macrophylla   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Woodlands, prairies, roadsides

Rare

Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Apalachicola Wild Indigo, Bigpod Wild Indigo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Baptisia megacarpa   FAMILY: Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Baptisia megacarpa   FAMILY: Fabaceae

 

Habitat: Moist forests of floodplains and lower slopes

Rare

Native to Georgia

 


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