Solar Flare Baptisia (Yellow False Indigo) - 1 Gallon Pot
$25.88
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$25.88
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Solar Flare Baptisia (Yellow False Indigo) - 1 Gallon Pot
$25.88
Sale price
$25.88
Regular price
$27.00
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Description
Solar Flare Baptisia
Baptisia 'Solar Flare' PP20,408
Other Names: Yellow False Indigo
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial
Height at Maturity: 3-4'
Width at Maturity: 4'
Spacing: 48" for mass plantings; 7'+ for space between plants
Spacing: 48" for mass plantings; 7'+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow, Orange and Violet Shades
Flower Size: 12-18"
Flowering Period: Late Spring to Early Summer
Flower Type: Pea-like
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Blue-Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun to Part Shade, 4 hours of sunlight or more per day
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sandy, Silt (amended)
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained
Soil pH: 6.0 - 7.0 (Slightly Acid to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Pollinators
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Clay Soil, Dry Soil, Poor Soil, Rabbit
Description
Appropriately named, the 'Solar Flare' Baptisia is a perennial that acts like a shrub featuring up to 100 vertical flower spikes on a single mature plant! It's a fast growing variety with extra-tall 18" flower towers coming in late spring to early summer each displaying very pretty lemon-yellow pea-like flowers that gradually age to a soft orange. Attractive dark seedpods follow the flowers. Kids love these pods because they rattle when shaken. Growing in an upright vase shape to maybe 4 feet tall and wide, Solar Flare is an excellent vertical accent in garden and the flowers spikes are ideal for cutting and use in fresh or dried flower arrangements. An exceptionally drought tolerant and long-lived North American native flowering perennial plant anyone can grow!
Landscape / Garden Uses
Growing to about 4 feet tall and equally as wide, Solar Flare Baptisia is ideal for use an accent or grouping in perennial and meadow gardens and even landscape borders where it acts and looks more like a deciduous shrub. Its upright growth habit serves well as a centerpiece or vertical accent in larger container gardens. A fine addition to butterfly gardens, pollinator gardens, cut flower gardens, yellow theme gardens, meadow gardens, cottage gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs gardens).
Growing Preferences
Solar Flare Baptisia is very easy to grow in most any moist to dry well-drained soil of low to average fertility and full sun to part shade. We suggest at least 5 hours or more of sunlight for best flowering. Tolerates poor and dry soils when established. Very drought tolerant and long-lived. A constantly soggy or wet soil can cause root rot. Plants can be cut back near the ground in late winter before new growth begins to emerge.
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Care
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