White Wild Indigo (Baptisia alba )

** I’m a NA native, but technically not native to NY. I should be used in your garden and not in wild areas.

 

I grow quickly in the spring

 

I have beautiful charcoal gray stems and blue-green leaves

 

I’m a legume, so I add to the health of your garden soil.

 

I’m a very long lived perennial, but can take up to four years to bloom.

 

Bumblebees enjoy my flowers and several species of skippers, butterflies and moth caterpillars  feed on my leaves.