Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read The Genus Baptisia in South Carolina by Bill Stringer.
Learn more about Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
For an in-depth treatment, peruse A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-009:
Baptisia alba FAMILY Fabaceae
INCLUDING A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia alba
INCLUDING A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Baptisia albescens
COMMON NAME:
Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo, Spiked Wild Indigo
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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JK Marlow jkm060513_006
May Pickens County SC
Roadside
Flowering pedicels 3-10mm long; calyx 4.5-6.5mm long; corolla 13-16(18)mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090529_003
May Pickens County SC
Utility right-of-way
B. albescens & B. alba have been nomenclaturally confused, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0138
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_albescens_3
May
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JK Marlow jkm0406k_04
June Oconee County SC
Fruits unlike our other species in being cylindric, ~ 3x long as wide, yellowish-brown when mature, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0406k_05
June Oconee County SC
Pods cylindrical, brown, not over 11mm thick, divergent to erect, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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JK Marlow jkm0506h_23
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm070609_026
June Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm070609_037
June Pickens County SC
The pods of B. albescens are erect, whereas those of B. alba are drooping, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm210603_1020
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210603_1025
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210605_1051
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles 5-10(20)mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_albescens_14
June
Flowering pedicels subtended by caducous bracts [here already gone] 1-2mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0507l_36
July Oconee County SC
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Bill Stringer wcsbaptisia_albescens
July
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JK Marlow jkm0410p_17
October Oconee County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia albescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-009:
Baptisia alba
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia alba
INCLUDING
A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia albescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Baptisia albescens
186
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry woodlands, pine flatwoods, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in GA & NC Mountains) (rare in GA Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-5 toothed or lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p117?
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p135
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p149
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p178
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p063
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p086
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p030?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p124?
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p186
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p127
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p164
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p079?
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