Cream Wild Indigo
Baptisia bracteata
White flowers from March into April, worked by black-and-gold bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 3 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to average soil
- Size
- 2.2 ft to 2.5 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to Apr
- Roots
- Roots; reach 7 ft down in open ground
- 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
Green Milkweed
Pennsylvania Sedge
Flowering DogwoodFacts from the Quercus record for Baptisia bracteata.