OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Baptisia cinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Baptisia cinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-003:

Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)

Baptisia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Baptisia villosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo


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image of Baptisia cinerea, Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_bavi7_001_lvd

        

image of Baptisia cinerea, Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

Alan S. Weakley    asw_226143250044934

May    Cumberland County    NC

Carvers Creek State Park

image of Baptisia cinerea, Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

Alan S. Weakley    asw_580284734245619

May    Cumberland County    NC

Carvers Creek State Park

After frost, the plant turns silvery gray, acting like a tumbleweed in winter, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Baptisia cinerea, Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

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 (Nelson, 2006).

image of Baptisia cinerea, Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo

Tim Spira    tps_bcinerea

Month Unknown        

Pubescent perennials with coriaceous trifoliate leaves & obovate leaflets, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Baptisia cinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Baptisia cinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-09-003:
Baptisia cinerea   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Baptisia villosa

 

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy woods, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (where it is a narrow endemic), rare elsewhere

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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

 

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