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. AL northwest through n. GA and n. SC to w. NC.
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, 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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native range: NC, SC, GA & AL
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