Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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 Carolina Wild Indigo from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-003:
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bavi7_001_lvd
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Alistair Glen gwn_baptisiacinerea
May-June? Pender County NC
Similar to B. lanceolata, but has more numerous and larger flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Tim Spira tps_bcinerea
Month Unknown
Pubescent perennials with coriaceous trifoliate leaves & obovate leaflets, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-003:
Baptisia cinerea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
189
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas
Documented growing wild in - NC SC
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (where it is a narow endemic)
Look for it in sandhills, other dry sandy woods, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-5 toothed or lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p118
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p191
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p272
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p227
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p160
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p030
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p123
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p061