NameThatPlant.net: Baptisia leucophaea +

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia leucophaea + FAMILY Fabaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Some references have the more westerly taxon in the broad sense B. bracteata as B. bracteata var. leucophaea, meaning that they would have the eastern taxon (including NC) as B. bracteata var. bracteata. Learn more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

For an in-depth treatment, peruse A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940).

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)

Baptisia leucophaea var. glabrescens

COMMON NAME:
longbract wild indigo

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia leucophaea + FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia leucophaea var. glabrescens

2407

Forb
Perennial

Look for it in pinelands and, depending on variety, woodlands or coastal prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Cream/Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-5 toothed or lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Legume

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

“To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language. For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.” — Asa Gray, in How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany

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