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Baptisia arachnifera; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2025-11-10

Baptisia arachnifera W.H.Duncan

Hairy rattleweed; Cobwebby wild indigo

Fabaceae · Georgia

No habitat climate
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Summary

Baptisia arachnifera, commonly known as hairy rattleweed, cobwebby wild indigo, hairy wild indigo, and hairy false indigo, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the legume family. Its native habitat is limited to sandy soils in pinewoods along the coastal plain of the U.S. state of Georgia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Baptisia arachnifera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Baptisia

Baptisia is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Baptisia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 16 of the 17 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeGeorgia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker31.257, -81.88 · in the densest population, 17 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 17 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 16 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 17 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (6).

Other Baptisia 15 in the reference

Baptisia aberrans Baptisia aberrans Eastern Prairie Wild Indigo Photo: CC0, John KeesBaptisia alba Baptisia alba White wild indigo Photo: CC BY, David WilkinsBaptisia australis Baptisia australis Blue wild indigo Photo: CC BY, Andrew ConboyBaptisia bracteata Baptisia bracteata Plains wild indigo Photo: CC BY, carterBaptisia cinerea Baptisia cinerea Grayhairy wild indigo Photo: CC BY, Brandon Corder Baptisia lactea Fabaceae Baptisia lanceolata Baptisia lanceolata Gopherweed Photo: CC BY, Celeste RayBaptisia lecontei Baptisia lecontei Pineland wild indigo Photo: CC0, author not statedBaptisia leucophaea Baptisia leucophaea Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Frank MayfieldBaptisia megacarpa Baptisia megacarpa Apalachicola wild indigo Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian FinzelBaptisia nuttalliana Baptisia nuttalliana Nuttall's wild indigo Photo: CC0, author not statedBaptisia perfoliata Baptisia perfoliata Catbells Photo: CC BY, geosesarma all 16 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
W.H.Duncan
Native to
Georgia
Wild records
17 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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