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§1 Plant

Baptisia alba (L.) Vent. var. macrophylla (Larisey) Isely

vernacular largeleaf wild indigo — variety · Fabaceae


USDA
BAALM
GBIF
2976077
Rank
variety
largeleaf wild indigo (Baptisia alba var. macrophylla)
Platephotograph · Eric Hunt source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Baptisia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 367 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 367 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 367 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 42 N
Illinois view state ↗ 96 N
Indiana view state ↗ 38 N
Iowa view state ↗ 25 N
Kansas view state ↗ 36 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 25 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 39 N
Michigan view state ↗ 14 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 14 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/BAALM ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2976077 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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