Wild Indigo.Baptisia tinctoria.
Found in dry sandy soil in uplands and light woods, blossoming in June and July.
The round stalk, from 2 to 3 feet high, is tough-fibred, and extremely smooth; color, green.
The leaf is divided into 3 small wedge-shaped leaflets, tapering at the base; it has an entire edge, a smooth and very fine surface, of a rich, dark gray-green color. The leaves are alternate, on very short foot-stems.
The corolla of the small pea-shaped blossom is of a clear yellow color, with a light green calyx. The flowers, on short curved stems, grow along the ends of the branches, in slender, elongated clusters, or spires,—the clusters sometimes branch, and are sometimes leafy.
Both the flower and leaf in withering turn black. The plant is attractive in its leafage, which is fine in quality and rich in color; when growing in the open it has a round, compact, bushy top, and a general air of trigness, often unnoted under less favorable conditions.