Baptisia tinctoria

In the Fabaceae family, Yellow Wild Indigo is an upright, shrubby, herbaceous perennial. It is low maintenance and works well in native cottage gardens, butterfly gardens, meadows, and drought tolerant gardens. The small, pea shaped flowers are showy and gold/yellow, and bloom from late Spring into Summer. The black, pod-like fruit is also considered an ornamental interest and appears after the flowers have bloomed. Yellow wild indigo is particularly nice to plant as it is resistant to many challenges such as deer, erosion, drought, pests and poor soil. It is a host plant to Frosted Elfin, Wild Duskywing and Orange Sulfur butterflies, and attracts bees and other insects as well.