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prairie false indigo
Baptisia lactea
28 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
thick-pod white wild indigoBaptisia alba
tall blue wild indigoBaptisia australis
cream wild-indigoBaptisia leucophaea
eastern wild indigoBaptisia tinctoria
Wild Blue LarkspurDelphinium carolinianum
White SweetcloverMelilotus albus
wild asparagusAsparagus officinalis
foxglove beardtonguePenstemon digitalis
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 8,549 |
|---|---|
| Illinois | 3,393 |
| Canada | 2,725 |
| Ontario | 2,725 |
| Wisconsin | 2,210 |
| Michigan | 2,007 |
| Minnesota | 1,041 |
| Ohio | 980 |
| Indiana | 783 |
| Missouri | 698 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Traits
Group and habits
- Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group
Classification
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Dicots · Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales |
| Family | Legumes · Fabaceae |
| Genus | wild indigos · Baptisia |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise prairie false indigo with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.