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 lactea   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Baptisia alba var. macrophylla

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

Baptisia alba var. macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Baptisia lactea var. lactea

INCLUDING A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)

Baptisia pendula var. macrophylla

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

Baptisia leucantha

 

COMMON NAME:
white wild indigo


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image of Baptisia lactea, white wild indigo

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_bale2_001_lvd

        

image of Baptisia lactea, white wild indigo

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_b_leucantha

May        

Like B. alba & albescens, its flowering pedicels are 3-10mm long, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Baptisia lactea var. lactea

INCLUDING A monograph of the genus Baptisia (Larisey, 1940)
Baptisia pendula var. macrophylla

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3574

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands, prairies, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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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

 

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