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Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis) is a wild flower that has been cultivated as a source of a blue-colored dye that is reminiscent of indigo dye.
It looks like a hardy version of sweet pea. This dense bush-like mass was about 3 feet (approx. 1 meter) in height and width, growing in a city alleyway. (The prettiest thing in the alley ).
than my all-fired hurry along the road I took :-)
Robert Brault
HBW!!
baptisia, 'Blueberry sundae', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh north carolina
Yes, of course B is for Bee. However, it is also for Baptisia Australis, the flower being visited by this funny little bee. I say "funny," because to me he looks as though he could have stepped (flown?) out of a cartoon.
Update:
Well, folks, according to my Flickr friend, Trev Grant, this little guy is actually a hoverfly.
At least B is still for Baptisia. :)
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I am still no good at it. :-)
Robert Brault
HMM!!HBM!!
Baptisia, 'Sparkling Sapphires', plant delights nursery, wake county, north carolina
Commonly known as blue wild indigo or blue false indigo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptisia_australis
Trivialnamen: Indigolupine, Blaue Färberhülse, Australische Färberhülse oder Falscher Indigo
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigolupine
Im Botanischen Garten in Wien
It's Baptisia sphaerocarpa, aka Yellow Wild Indigo, I believe. It was photographed last Spring at Chicago Botanic Garden.
Looking Close on Friday: "Flowers In Side View" theme
HLCoF
Our experiences are traced in the maddeningly intricate neuronal circuits within our brain where these traces become our memory and then our reality. However, under unusual circumstances, imagination and emotional dreams etch engrams (memory traces) probably in same or similar neuronal circuits. Here, beyond the horizons of contemporary human knowledge, our imaginations and dreams merge with our facts and may become our reality. While Science struggles to distinguish between these fine lines, Art amuses itself by smudging them. Fighting the urge to do both, I often end up with convoluted lines. Hence, I often exist at the edge of my dreams where my realities of various origins find harmony in one another and render me the unusual ability to experience my dreams and imaginations as actuality.
So, don’t ever doubt me when I tell you how I learned the soul-dance from a silver-spotted butterfly the other day while drenching myself in Baptisia dew. If you ever find your way inside my head you will know, I am not lying.
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Scanning through old images, I came upon this and was finally able to ID it with the “Picture This” app. When in bloom this native perennial has spikes of lovely blue to deep violet flowers. Sap from broken stems turns blue upon contact with the air.
Early May is a bit early for Sachems, but to see this very fresh female today was truly surprising. So far I have not seen any males this year.
Seen nectaring on Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis).
Lost in the Indigo Bloom… Standing out while blending in. A solitary wild indigo bloom takes the spotlight, while its vibrant companions melt into a soft, dreamlike bokeh.
Captured not just as a moment, but as a brushed botanical study in depth and light. With the soft melting layers of grass and buds fading into a dreamlike bokeh, the frame transforms into a living canvas of blooms. It’s nature’s own impressionism, where the line between a photograph and a painting beautifully blur.
Photographed at the Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt in northeastern Polk County, Iowa.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptisia_australis
Moment captured at Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. USA
A photo of Baptisia (Wild Indigo) taken at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa.
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I've seen the butterfly many times-- it is one of our most common-- but this is the first time I've seen its caterpillar. This was on wild indigo. Victoria Glades, Missouri
This white wild indigo seed pod is about the same size as a whole peanut and the pale green seeds inside are the size of BBs (be careful or you'll shoot your eye out!) to give you a sense of scale for the size of that small black wild indigo weevil sitting at the upper right side of this open pod. Back in June, a female wild indigo weevil chewed a hole in this seed pod while it was still immature and pushed her eggs inside. Upon hatching, her larvae, up to six or so, fed on the developing seeds and eventually pupated. Now in late summer the adult weevils are emerging. They likely feed on any leftover seeds like we see here and will stay locked up inside the closed seed pod all winter. Next spring when the white wild indigo seed pod dries out and splits open the adult weevils will gain their freedom and wait until new plants begin to grow and flower to start the next generation. I opened this pod on purpose so we could see the weevil inside and several others had already escaped by the time I took this photo.
Tall, upright white wild indigo wildflowers are among the first native plants of the spring season to bloom in the Trailhead Community Park, on the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ Baptisia alba —commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo— is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing in grasslands, favoring moist soils, and typically 2 to 4 feet tall (0.61 to 1.2 m).
White, pea-like flowers occur from a long spike inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], and bloom from April to July, earlier in the southern part of the range. Leaves have an alternate arrangement, and are trifoliate [three-parted], narrow, and oblong. Clusters of large, black seedpods often remain attached to the naked winter stems. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers. The plant can be fatal to cows and irritating to humans, if ingested.
— Wikipedia.
— Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center.
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A blue-purple pea-like flower. The flowers are congested in a dense, upright, terminal spikes, 4 to 16 in. long.
Plant height: 3 to 4 feet
Not native to Wisconsin but is often planted as an ornamental.
As was the case for this one.
Native to eastern North American prairies, meadows, open woods and along streams.
Blooms May - Jun.
Also known as: Blue Wild Indigo and Blue False Indigo
Pleasant Valley Conservancy, Wisconsin. the center of the plant is to the upper right and several other cluster of flowers go off horizontally from the heavily-leaved center.
(Baptisia australis). Collin County, Texas.
The striking Blue Wild Indigo is primarily a species of the central United States with scattered populations further east. It barely enters Texas in a few northern counties near the border with Oklahoma. Here it occurs in remnant prairies where the soil column remains intact.