Phonetic: bap-TEE-zee-uh tink-TOR-ee-ah
Small Yellow Wild Indigo is a shrubby perennial, and generally wider than it is tall. It features numerous bright yellow pea-like flowers, arising on stems that extend just above a mound of clover-like foliage. The mounded foliage is loosely compact, and the overall texture provides a distinct compliment to a variety of other plants. After blooming the flowers give way to small, inflated seed pods which turn black when ripe, offering good late season interest. Mature plants have a deep, extensive root systems and should not be disturbed once established.
- Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Native Region: BONAP Map
- BONAP Map Key Color Guide: Map Color Key
- Sun Exposure: Full, Partial
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Bloom Time: June, July, August
- Soil Type: Medium - Dry
- Mature Plant Size: 2-3'H, 2-3'W
- Plant Spacing: 2-3'
- Host Plant: Frosted Elfin, Orange Butterfly, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Clouded Sulphur Butterfly, Moths and Skippers
- Attracts: Bees, Butterflies
- Advantages: Deer resistant, drought and poor soil tolerant, long lived
- Landscape Uses: Butterfly garden, cottage gardens, mass planting, perennial borders
- Companion Plants: Black Eyed Susan, Butterfly Weed, Coneflower, Showy Goldenrod
- Deer Resistant
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