Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
What is there not to love about Cream Wild Indigo? Cream Wild Indigo is a short, bushy plant with cream-colored flowers that bloom in late spring. It looks like a wedding bouquet, with long strands of cream flowers flowing out of a bunch of silvery leaves that almost look like eucalyptus. It’s a wonderful spring display for drier, sunny gardens.
The flowers are popular with bumblebees, which will spend minutes going from flower to flower in search of nectar. After blooming, it forms an attractive mound of foliage.
The leaves of Cream Wild Indigo turn black in the fall and stay upright over winter. The large seed pods are also an attractive feature, starting out as large green bean pods and then turning black in fall. Inside you will find small bean-like seeds. This plant is a legume, a type of plant that fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere down into the roots.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium, Dry
Height: 2 feet
Blooms: May, June
Color: Cream
Spacing: 2-3′
Spreads: Doesn’t spread much
Zones: 3-9
Benefits: Pollinators, Birds
Cream Wild Indigo creates a large, low mound and looks best when scattered individually around a short garden. Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia bracteata) may take 2-3 years to bloom, but is extremely long-lived.
The thick stems often support the plant throughout the winter, but sometimes they do break off and roll around almost like a tumbleweed! These stems can be cut off with a hand pruner in fall or spring, allowing the new stems to grow unimpeded.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Pasque Flower
Dotted Blazing Star
Blue Grama Grass
Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
What is there not to love about Cream Wild Indigo? Cream Wild Indigo is a short, bushy plant with cream-colored flowers that bloom in late spring. It looks like a wedding bouquet, with long strands of cream flowers flowing out of a bunch of silvery leaves that almost look like eucalyptus. It’s a wonderful spring display for drier, sunny gardens.
The flowers are popular with bumblebees, which will spend minutes going from flower to flower in search of nectar. After blooming, it forms an attractive mound of foliage.
The leaves of Cream Wild Indigo turn black in the fall and stay upright over winter. The large seed pods are also an attractive feature, starting out as large green bean pods and then turning black in fall. Inside you will find small bean-like seeds. This plant is a legume, a type of plant that fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere down into the roots.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium, Dry
Height: 2 feet
Blooms: May, June
Color: Cream
Spacing: 2-3′
Spreads: Doesn’t spread much
Zones: 3-9
Benefits: Pollinators, Birds
Cream Wild Indigo creates a large, low mound and looks best when scattered individually around a short garden. Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia bracteata) may take 2-3 years to bloom, but is extremely long-lived.
The thick stems often support the plant throughout the winter, but sometimes they do break off and roll around almost like a tumbleweed! These stems can be cut off with a hand pruner in fall or spring, allowing the new stems to grow unimpeded.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Pasque Flower
Dotted Blazing Star
Blue Grama Grass
