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blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis)
Photo: (c) aarongunnar, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

blue wild indigo

Baptisia australis · Fabaceae · all Baptisia records · also called Blue false indigo · Wikipedia

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Form
perennial
Rated in
NC; North Carolina
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
NC; North Carolina
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-Resistant Landscaping in North Carolina (AG-874) · Official scoped edition
    • NC; complete normalized coverage · 2025-03-26

      The complete three-table AG-874 plant list is explicitly for North Carolina and contains 202 low-, medium-, or high-flammability rows. FireApproved accounts for all source rows under its strict taxonomy and lineage rules; source scope does not establish local suitability at a particular North Carolina site.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AL, AR, CT, DC, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV.
Native range
Current cited native range in AL, AR, CT, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV.
Introduced / established
4 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

25

exact source areas

Current introduced

4

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

25 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alabama (AL)
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • Delaware (DE)
  • Georgia (GA)
  • Iowa (IA)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Kansas (KS)
  • Kentucky (KY)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maryland (MD)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oklahoma (OK)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Tennessee (TN)
  • Texas (TX)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • West Virginia (WV)
4 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • District of Columbia (DC)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Wisconsin (WI)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Mid-scale / conditional (2)

Fire-resistant perennials instead

butterfly milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa red columbine
Aquilegia canadensis wild bergamot
Monarda fistulosa Jack in the pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum blackeyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta swamp milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Same genus in the directory · the Baptisia group page

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Baptisia australis (Blue false indigo). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/baptisia-australis/. Last verified 2026-08-23.