White Wild Indigo

This plant is a legume and its roots have nitrogen-fixing nodules on them. It is useful on nutrient poor soils.



Treat as a small shrub or use as a background plant in a wildflower garden. Can make a nice but tall border plant. Its flowers are more visible if planted against something that gives them contrast such as a dark fence. Assets  include its long racemes of white flowers and its leafy, rounded foliage.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Toxic to livestock and humans.

Deer and rabbits browse the foliage, and as a legume it provides nutritious, protein-rich food.

Sandhill

• Showy flowers
• Larval host for wild indigo duskywing (Erynnis baptisiae) and Zarucco duskywing (Erynnis zarucco) butterflies.
• Pollinated by bumble bees.