false indigo Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several plants of the genus Baptisia
    wild indigo.
  2. noun dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers
    Amorpha fruticosa; bastard indigo.
  3. noun an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
    bastard indigo; Amorpha californica.

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