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Baptisia tinctoria

Common name yellow wild indigo; rattleweed

Family fabaceae

Life cycle perennial (Z3-9)

Flowers yellow (late spring)

Size 2-3'

Light sun-part shade

Cultural notes drought-tolerant once established; resents transplanting

Native to the Eastern U.S. Yellow pea flowers are followed by brown seed boxes, in which the seeds rattle around in the wind, hence the second common name. I germinated seeds for this plant once before, but the seedlings didn't survive their first full year. Trying again.

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: orchard nursery area

About my plant portraits

Some helpful links to other websites

Missouri Botanical Garden

helpful fact sheet with a photo of the flower

Seed-starting details for this plant

Seed from '07 trade. Split into two lots: one dunked into boiling-hot water and soaked 1d, followed by baggy 75F (no G, 8w); the other scarified with sandpaper, baggy 75F (67%G, 8-55d)

Conventional advice for baptisias is the hot-water soak, but my experience thus far is that mechanical scarification works better.

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Last modified: March 02, 2008
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