An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 5. Baptisia alba (L.) R. Br. White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2457. Crotalaria alba L. Sp, PI. 716. 1753. Baptisia alba R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. 3: 6. 1811. Glabrous throughout, divergently branching, i°-3° high. Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate; petioles slender, 3'-g' long; leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed at
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 5. Baptisia alba (L.) R. Br. White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2457. Crotalaria alba L. Sp, PI. 716. 1753. Baptisia alba R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. 3: 6. 1811. Glabrous throughout, divergently branching, i°-3° high. Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate; petioles slender, 3'-g' long; leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, obtuse at the apex, I'-ii' long, 4'-6' wide, rather thin, green in drying; stipules and bracts minute, subulate, early deciduous; racemes elongated, erect, 6'-io' long, lateral, long-peduncled; pedicels 3'-8' long; flowers white, 6'-7' long; pod linear-oblong, about li' long, 4' thick, short-stalked in the calyx, abruptly tipped with an almost filiform deciduous style. In dry soil. North Carolina to Fl orida. Recorded from Missouri and s outher 1 Indiana but A-e hav e seer n speci- mens collected west c r north c f the South Atlan tic States. Erroneously re corded from Mi nneso a and Onta May- June. Prairie- indigo. 6. Baptisia leucantha T. &; G. Large White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2458. Baptisia leucantha T. &; G. Fl. N. A. i ; 385. 1840. Glabrous throughout, succulent, branching, 2°-4° high, the branches stout, ascending. Leaves petioled. 3-foliolate, blackening in dry- ing; leaflets obovate or oblanceolate. 1-2' long, 6'-i2' wide, very obtuse, rounded and some- times slightly emarginate at the apex, nar- rowed or cuneate at the base; stipules lanceo- late or linear, equalling or shorter than the petioles, deciduous ; racemes lateral, sometimes 1° long, loosely flowered ; flowers white, g'-io' long; pedicels 2'-3' long; pod ellipsoi4, long- stalked in the calyx, about 9' long, tipped with the subulate style. In rich soil. Ontario to Minnesota, south to Kentucky, Nort
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