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Baptisia lecontei

pineland wild indigo
Habit Herbs divaricate-branched, to 1 m, puberulent or glabrate.
Leaves

not blackening upon drying, petiolate;

stipules mostly deciduous, lanceolate, 2–10 mm;

petiole 2–10 mm;

leaflets 3, blades spatulate to obovate.
Racemes

3–10-flowered, flowers well spaced, terminal, bracteate, bracts persistent.
Pedicels

10–20 mm, bracteolate.
Flowers

10–15 mm;

calyx 6–7 mm, lobes ± equal to tube, glabrous or pubescent;

corolla lemon yellow, 9–14 mm.
Legumes

ascending, ovoid to suborbicular, 8–11 × 8–9 mm, abruptly short-beaked, somewhat woody.
Seeds

2–4.

Baptisia lecontei
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Pine and pine-oak woodlands, white, sandy soils.
Elevation 0–30 m. (0–100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA
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Discussion

As noted by D. Isely (1981), Baptisia lecontei superficially resembles B. tinctoria in having relatively small flowers, yellow corollas, and somewhat similar legumes. Baptisia tinctoria does not have the persistent, foliaceous bracts and bracteolate pedicels of B. lecontei.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Baptisia
Sibling taxa
B. alba, B. arachnifera, B. australis, B. bracteata, B. calycosa, B. cinerea, B. hirsuta, B. lactea, B. lanceolata, B. leucophaea, B. megacarpa, B. nuttalliana, B. perfoliata, B. simplicifolia, B. sphaerocarpa, B. tinctoria
Name authority Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 386. (1840)
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