Baptisia lactea (Raf.) Thieret
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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.
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Other Baptisia 15 in the reference
Baptisia aberrans Eastern Prairie Wild Indigo Photo: CC0, John Kees
Baptisia alba White wild indigo Photo: CC BY, David Wilkins
Baptisia arachnifera Hairy rattleweed Photo: CC0, author not stated
Baptisia australis Blue wild indigo Photo: CC BY, Andrew Conboy
Baptisia bracteata Plains wild indigo Photo: CC BY, carter
Baptisia cinerea Grayhairy wild indigo Photo: CC BY, Brandon Corder
Baptisia lanceolata Gopherweed Photo: CC BY, Celeste Ray
Baptisia lecontei Pineland wild indigo Photo: CC0, author not stated
Baptisia leucophaea Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Frank Mayfield
Baptisia megacarpa Apalachicola wild indigo Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian Finzel
Baptisia nuttalliana Nuttall's wild indigo Photo: CC0, author not stated
Baptisia perfoliata Catbells Photo: CC BY, geosesarma all 16 ›Names & registers
Also known as Dolichos lacteus. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Baptisia lactea (Raf.) Thieret (plant_name_id 2669523), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 29306-2, POWO 29306-2wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Baptisia lactea to Baptisia albainat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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.