General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 12 - 36 inches
Plant Spread: 12 - 18 inches
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Dye production
Will Naturalize
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds
Scarify seeds
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
  • Horseflyweed
  • Yellow Wild Indigo
  • Small Yellow Wild Indigo
  • Wild Indigo

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Location: Granite Falls, WA
Date: 2019-08-17
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-25
Location: Granite Falls, WA
Date: 2019-08-17
Location: Along the Alligator River... somewhere in North Carolina | June, 2022. And yes, we did see an alligator.
Date: 2022-06-12

(http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/} ©2008 Steven J. Baskauf
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-06-06
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-06-06
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-02
in the wild

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