Blue False Indigo Baptisia australis 
                                                        Richard Bauer from Wisconsin State Herbarium website
 
 
Common Name Blue False Indigo
Scientific Name Baptisia australis
Height 3 1/2 - 4' foliage, 5' blossom stalks
 Sun/Shade Sun - partial shade 
  Bloom Season April - May
 Bloom Color Blue
Soil Well drained, can handle poor soil. pH should be lower than 6.5 
Disease Susceptibility
 Notes Good against a wall

 
 
  Prairie Nursery Enders Possibility Place
Costs from 
Spring 2001
catalog
Deep Plug 
1-3 $4.95ea. 
4-11 $3.95ea. 
12-31 $3.75ea. 
32-63 $3.25ea. 
64-95 $2.95ea. 
96+ $2.75 ea. 

1,600 seeds/oz.
1/8oz.-$4.50 
1/4oz.-$6.00 
1/2oz.-$9.00 
1oz.-$15.00 
1lb.-$225.00 

Native plant retail prices: 
½ pint - 2.35
pint - 3.40
quart - 4.75
½ gallon - 5.95
gallon - 7.50 & up. 
Flat of 32, single species - $37.00
2" plug - $2.25 each
gallons - $4.75

Information on Baptisia australis:
- Wisconsin State Herbarium - http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/herbarium/scripts/detail.asp?SpCode=BAPAUS
- Landscaping with Plants Native to Indiana. (pamphlet). November 1999.
-Harstad, Carolyn. Go Native! Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers in the Lower Midwest.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999
- Cullina, Willaim. The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2000.