The first of our Baptisia hybrids to be selected and introduced, the Twilite false indigo is an extremely robust and vigorous perennial. Our original plant at peak measured 5’ tall x 9’ wide with over 1,500 inflorescences after 15 years! Be sure to give this large perennial plenty of room in the back of the border, or use it as a screen. The deep-violet flowers with their lemon-yellow keels are displayed above the handsome blue-green foliage. In warmer climates the vegetative growth may be so vigorous that many of the flowers will be hidden in the foliage. It blooms from mid- to late-May into early June in northern Illinois. Selected from a cross of Baptisia australis x B. sphaerocarpa conducted by Dr. Jim Ault at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois. Hardy to USDA Zones 4 – 7.

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