Tall Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia australis
Blue, yellow, purple and white flowers from April into June, worked by black-and-gold bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 8 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, yellow, purple and white, Apr to Jun
- Roots
- A taproot
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 21 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 22 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Black-and-gold bumble bee (Bombus auricomus), Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Golden northern bumble bee (Bombus fervidus), American bumble bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Grows well with
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
New England Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant SumacFacts from the Quercus record for Baptisia australis.