baptisia

If you need any more convincing, baptisia is a Missouri native and a Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit.

Let’s celebrate the 2010 perennial of the year: Baptisia australis « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

Leguminosae is a huge family that includes many familiar plants -- all types of beans, peas, clovers and lentils; flowers such as baptisia, hyacinth bean, and sweet pea; and trees such as black locust, honeylocust, Kentucky coffee tree and redbud.

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In the picture with the amsonia and baptisia, I found it interesting that the lights in the background mimic the form of the baptisia.

Remembering Chicago’s Gardens « Fairegarden 2009

The now green background plant is a seed grown baptisia, the white flowered one.

June Fun « Fairegarden 2008

As will the yellow baptisia and the purple, which WILL look like THIS next week:

Photo F-Friday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2008

Blue iris, blue baptisia and a sprig of pink dianthus complete the scene above.

Color in the Garden-GBDW Part Three « Fairegarden 2008

Here is a view from the path of what will soon include Echinacea blooms, but currently shows the phlox, the baptisia and the glorious redbud.

Photo F-Friday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2008

They are, in order of appearance, some purple-y, crawly mossy thing its official scientific designation, doncha know, a purple lily that thrives in the shadow of my redbud tree, flowers from the Kousa Dogwood, a prickly pear cactus growing happily up here in the Northeast and some purple baptisia.

Photo F-F-Friday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2008

I had a baptisia that died there, then some white phlox that also died.

Archive 2005-09-01 Pat 2005

I had a baptisia that died there, then some white phlox that also died.

Note to self Pat 2005