by Jeffrey S. Pippen | Back to Jeff's Plant Page | Jeff's Nature Pages
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Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) Pender Co., NC 23 Apr 2006 Showy yellow flowers blooming from spring to fall, this plant is found in dry woods & clearings statewide in NC. |
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Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) Person Co., NC 13 June 2006 |
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Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) Pender Co., NC 23 Apr 2006 Wild Indigos are caterpillar host plants for a few butterflies including Frosted Elfin and Wild Indigo Duskywing. |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
Created on ... May 7, 2006 | jspippen@duke.edu