False Indigo-bush

Multistemmed shrub that can form small thickets. Plant as a screen, hedge, or background plant.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Can become aggressive in some habitats.

Moist hammocks, dry hammocks, dry hardwood forests

• Fall color, Showy flowers
• Larval host for southern dogface (Zerene cesonia), gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus), and silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus).
• Said to attract bees, beetles, and other insect pollinators.