How to Grow and Care for False Indigo (Wild Indigo) - The Spruce
2024年6月11日 · False indigo is a large, upright perennial with gray-green leaves and beautiful long racemes of indigo-blue flowers that appear from April through June. False indigo, commonly called wild indigo, is a native, thus non-invasive, herbaceous perennial plant in the legume family with pea-like flowers.
Amorpha fruticosa - Wikipedia
Amorpha fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, known by several common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush. [3] It is native to North America.
Amorpha fruticosa (Bastard Indigo, False Indigo, Indigo Bush, Indigo …
False Indigo is a deciduous native shrub in the Fabaceae (bean) family. It is typically found growing in moist open woodlands, roadsides, canyons, floodplains, gravel bars, stream and pond banks, and along swamp edges.
False indigo | The Morton Arboretum
False indigo is an attractive, shrubby perennial that blooms in late spring in colors of yellow, blue or purple. Plants emerge in the spring looking like black asparagus shoots. The shoots elongate into large, rounded, shrub-like plants with gray-green leaves and dark stems.
Amorpha fruticosa - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
False indigo is a deciduous shrub that typically grows to 4-12' (less frequently to 20') tall with a spread often in excess of its height. It is native to moist open woodland areas, floodplains, stream banks and swamp margins from central to eastern Canada south throughout much of the U. S. into northern Mexico.
False Indigo: A Native Plant with Rich Color and Richer History
2020年5月25日 · Long before Levi Strauss popularized the indigo-dyed blue jean, Native Americans used False Indigo for its rich pigment. Learn about this beautiful and historically-significant native plant!
Grow and Care for Baptisia Plants (False Indigo) | Garden Design
2022年3月3日 · Also called yellow false indigo, this showy cultivar is smothered with tall spikes of bold yellow flowers, held above a dense mound of foliage. Compact plants have a nice, full, bushy appearance.
Plant Profile: Indigo Bush, A little known Beauty
Indigo Bush or False Indigo (Amorpha fruiticosa) is one of my favorite late spring blooming shrubs/small trees. Its deep purple blooms, bright orange stamens and fine textured leaves are a welcoming contrast to the many white blooming, larger leaved native shrubs (See photos).
False Indigo, Indigo-bush, Bastard Indigo, Indigo-bush Amorpha
False indigo has lacy, dark-green compound leaves with 11-27 leaflets, and showy spikes of 3 inch- to 6 inch-long purple flowers with golden anthers. It can grow to 10 feet high and 5 feet wide. Although it is naturally a dense and many-branched shrub, it can be pruned into a tree form.
Amorpha fruticosa — false indigo-bush - Go Botany
With feathery, compound leaves and spires of purple, fragrant flowers, false indigo-bush, a member of the pea family, has been planted widely. Although native to a large part of North America, it is introduced in New England, and considered invasive in Connecticut, where it sometimes escapes the garden to riparian islands and shores.