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West Virginia
Yellow Wild Indigo
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Yellow Wild Indigo

Baptisia tinctoria

It grows wild in 13 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
2.9 ft to 3.8 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
Flowers
Yellow and white
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
A taproot; wants 16 in of soil
Kind
Wildflower
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Yellow Wild Indigo, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedbare for winter

What it feeds

Caterpillars
19 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

Calico Aster3 ft tallBluestem Goldenrod2.5 ft tallNew Jersey Tea2.5 ft tallSweet Goldenrod4 ft tallWrinkle-leaf Goldenrod4 ft tallBlack-eyed Susan3 ft tallNew England Aster4 ft tallSmall's Ragwort2.3 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Baptisia tinctoria.