All You Need To Know About The Wild Blue Indigo

Written By Jessie Shrieve

Wild Blue Indigo

NEEDS

  • Tolerate clay soils, but not soggy wet

USES & FLOWERS

  • 3’-4’ tall and wide

  • Blue-green leaves & blue flower

  • Leaves and stems turn purple upon exposure to air

NOTES

  • Toxic

  • Sub for indigo dye

  • Native to wood edges, prairie lands

  • Growing wild on Daufuskie Island

  • Daufuskie Blues- Leanne Coulter’s studio in the Mary Fields School House on Daufuskie

Jessie Shrieve
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