Baptisia tinctoria

Small Yellow Wild Indigo

• Average, moderately wet or moderately dry soils
• Full Sun to light shade
• 24” tall, 24” to 36” wide 
• Summer blooms
• Ontario Native, Thriving in Meadow and Dry Meadow ecosystems, Nitrogen Fixing 

New to me, grown from seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery https://www.prairiemoon.com/baptisia-tinctoria-sm-yellow-wild-indigo-prairie-moon-nursery.html 

While the blue forms of Baptisia are more widely known, this smaller, later, yellow blooming species is the only one that is native to Ontario.

Please check out the Prairie Moon listing at the link above for more details.

Photo by Mason Brock 

Illustration from: American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homopathic remedies- their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects (1887)

via Wikimedia Commons