Baptisia albescens, Spiked White Indigo are long-lived perennials found on mesic to dry soil sites, and in open to partially forested sites where they get partial to full sun. As members of the pea family, they are nitrogen-fixers with attractive blue-green foliage that grows 2-4' tall and produce very showy white to ivory flowers on tall dusky blue-green stalks in late spring-early summer. Larval hosts for the Wild Indigo Duskywing, Hoary Edge, Southern Dogface, and Orange Sulfur butterflies, and Black-Spotted Prominent moth.
 
Found mainly in the southern piedmont. Click to see it's range in North Carolina
 
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