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Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' |
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| Family |
fabaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
dusty purple (early summer) |
| Size |
3-4' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
A natural hybrid of Baptisia australis and Baptisia alba, two US native species. I've attempted to raise both the parents from seed - I say attempted, because although I still have live plants, they don't amount to much after several years. So when I found these at an end-of-season sale, I jumped on them. They still took more than a year to bloom, but finally, we can say we have blue-flowered baptisia in our garden. Worth waiting for, too - subtly two-toned violet-blue flowers offset by charcoal-gray stems, with loose foliage typical of most baptisias we've grown. Undoubtedly, they'll grow bigger and more floriferous in years to come.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: bogside border One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Mandy Taylor | Jun 19, 2008 | I just bought two of these after seeing them at the RBG, they are so vibrant and I will wait patiently for them as they are very small, not even a foot yet, so it might be quit a wait... |
| Christa Stengel | Aug 23, 2009 | Genus name is Baptista, rather than Baptisia.
That's an interesting assertion - but runs contrary to just about all the information out there, printed and online. |
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May 26, 2008
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