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Fabaceae
Baptisia

not marked as a favorite taxon Baptisia bracteata Muhlenberg ex Elliott. Common name: Creamy Wild Indigo. Phenology: Mar-Apr; May-Jun. Habitat: Dry ridgetop woodlands and forests, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands. Distribution: Ne. Alabama northwest through n. Georgia and n. South Carolina to w. North Carolina.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: The more western B. leucophaea Nuttall is better treated as a species than as B. bracteata var. leucophaea (Nuttall) Kartesz & Gandhi (Mendenhall 1994b).

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA11.1, POWO, RAB, S, S13, W, Larisey (1940a), Mendenhall (1994a), Mendenhall (1994b), Turner (2006a), Woods & Diamond (2014); = Baptisia bracteata Muhl. ex Elliott var. bracteata — C, Il, K1, K4, NS, POWO, SE3, Isely (1981), Isely (1998). Basionym: Baptisia bracteata Muhl. ex Elliott 1817

Links to other floras: = Baptisia bracteata - FNA11.1

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Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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image #1 of Baptisia bracteata© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Baptisia bracteata© Alan Cressler: Baptisia bracteata, Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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native range: NC, SC, GA & AL