Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Baptisia alba (L.) Vent.

Family: Fabaceae

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Baptisia alba (L.) R. Br., Baptisia alba R. Br., Possibly, Sophora alba Michx., Possibly Podalyria alba Michx.

Common names:

Prairie indigo (1876-1923) (5, 92, 156)

White wild indigo, White wildindigo (1907-Present) (5, 50, 72, 155)

Wild Indigo (1882, Kansas) (48)

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