Tennessee Smart Yards Native Plants

A comprehensive database of Tennessee native plants

Small Yellow Wild Indigo

Small Yellow Wild Indigo

Baptisia tinctoria

Full to part sun, moderately wet to dry moisture level, most soils except clay, slightly acid to neutral pH.  3 ft. height, blooms in summer, yellow flowers, spreads slowly by seed.

Germination Code:  C(10), H, I

Native Region:  Blue Ridge Province of east Tennessee, Cumberland Plateau, and Maury County

Legume that likes open, sandy dry woods.  Attracts butterflies and bees.

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