Description: Tall spikes of white flowers with blue-green foliage. 4 ft height
Growth Habit: Upright, clump-forming perennial.
Sun/Shade: Full sun.
Water Needs: Low to moderate; prefers well-drained soil.
Soil Preferences: Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil.
Benefits: Attracts bees and butterflies. Drought-tolerant and deer-resistant. Adds structure and height to gardens.
 
A quick grower in spring, White Wild Indigo has striking charcoal-gray stems, blue-green leaves and pea-like blossoms forming on long spikes, making it quite showy, but without floral scent. This plant is popular with insects. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers and caterpillars of several skippers, butterflies and moths feed on the foliage. These caterpillars include the Southern Dogface, Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, and Eastern Tailed-Blue. Adult Wild Indigo Weevils eat the leaves and flowers of this and other Baptisia species; their grubs attack the seeds in the pods. 
New sprouts of White Wild Indigo can be mistaken for asparagus when they push from the ground in spring. After the first frost, the entire shrub-like plant turns black, adding a stunning contrast to the copper-color of Little Bluestem, or the remaining yellow of Showy Goldenrod in a fall landscape.  As fall progresses to winter, the strong stems crack at the base and winds carry this plant, like a tumbleweed, across the prairie distributing the seed.