Baptisia lecontei
Baptisia perfoliata
pineland wild indigo
cat-bells
not blackening upon drying, petiolate;
stipules mostly deciduous, lanceolate, 2–10 mm;
petiole 2–10 mm;
leaflets 3, blades spatulate to obovate.
sessile;
stipules absent;
leaflet 1, blade perfoliate, broadly ovate-elliptic.
3–10-flowered, flowers well spaced, terminal, bracteate, bracts persistent.
1-flowered, axillary, ebracteate.
10–20 mm, bracteolate.
absent.
10–15 mm;
calyx 6–7 mm, lobes ± equal to tube, glabrous or pubescent;
corolla lemon yellow, 9–14 mm.
15–17 mm;
calyx 5–7 mm, glabrous;
corolla bright yellow, 13–15 mm.
ascending, ovoid to suborbicular, 8–11 × 8–9 mm, abruptly short-beaked, somewhat woody.
ascending, ovoid, 10–15 × 8–12 mm, abruptly beaked, woody.
2–4.
2–4.
= 18.
Baptisia lecontei
Baptisia perfoliata
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.)
Baptisia perfoliata forms hybrids with B. alba, B. lanceolata, and B. tinctoria; F1 hybrids with the latter are called B. × microphylla Nuttall.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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