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| 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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