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Baptisia leucophaea; photograph Larry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYLarry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Baptisia leucophaea Nutt.

Fabaceae · Illinois, Iowa +13

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Baptisia leucophaea, photograph Frank Mayfield, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBaptisia leucophaea, photograph Larry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBaptisia leucophaea, photograph Larry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBaptisia leucophaea, photograph Larry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBaptisia leucophaea, photograph Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBaptisia leucophaea, photograph Schubbay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›

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

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeIllinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee · 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).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Frank Mayfield, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Larry Trekell, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Schubbay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

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 arachnifera Baptisia arachnifera Hairy rattleweed Photo: CC0, author not statedBaptisia 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 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

Also known as Baptisia oxyphylla; Baptisia leucophaea var. glabrescens; Baptisia leucophaea var. laevicaulis; Baptisia laevicaulis; Baptisia bracteata var. glabrescens and 5 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Nutt.
Native to
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas +12
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Baptisia leucophaea Nutt. (plant_name_id 2669534), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.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 asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.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 asked
GBIF common names gbif.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 asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.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 asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate 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 them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 304758-2, POWO 304758-2
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Baptisia leucophaea to Baptisia bracteata
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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