Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants The underside of each flower

The underside of each flower consists of nicely contrasting violet spurs

Quite a people who write about it seem unable to distinguish between a garden thug and an invasive plant

Starting for us at the end of winter

along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (Northern Arizona along the Utah border)

Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants The underside of each flower(syn: Baptisia australis var. minor A1T 002) If you have only grown Baptisia australis, then you've missed one of the best blue flowered members of the genus Baptisia. Baptisia minor is its little known cousin that's actually superior to Baptisia australis in garden value. Take a Baptisia australis and shrink the leaves and plant by about half, attach an 18 24" flower spike atop the clump, which is loaded with blue lavender flowers from mid April