Family: Papilionaceae
Scientific Name: Baptisia x Twilight Prairie Blues
Common Name: Twilight Prairie Blues Babtisia
Description | A new Baptisia with a bicolor yellow and purple-blue flower |
Pronunciation | (bap-TIS-ee-uh) |
Plant Type | Perennials Hardy |
Hardiness Zone | 4 |
Sunlight | best in full sun, shaded areas can produce weaker stemmed plants |
Moisture | average, drought tolerant once established |
Soil & Site | average, tolerates poor |
Flowers | purplish blue with a lemon yellow keel, fades to a truer blue, borne on a raceme |
Fruit | dark seed pods that rattle in the wind |
Leaves | blue green, clover-like foliage |
Roots | deep rooted, small nodules on the roots house beneficial bacteria, they turn atmospheric
nitrogen into a usable from for the plants |
Dimensions | plants in my garden are reaching 3-4 by 3-4 feet |
Maintenance | Forms a deep tap root, difficult to move once established |
Propagation | cuttings |
Cultivar Origin | Introduced by Jim Ault of the Chicago Botanic Garden, a cross between B. australis and sphaerocarpa. |
Misc Facts | formerly in the Fabaceae family |
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