• Image of Baptisia leucophaea 'Butterball'|Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC|JLBG

    Photo by JLBG taken at Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC

  • Image of Baptisia leucophaea 'Butterball'|Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC|JLBG

    Photo by JLBG taken at Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC

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Baptisia leucophaea 'Butterball'

Butterball False Indigo

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Item #: 7206

Zones: 3a to 9b

Dormancy: Winter

Height: 18" tall

Culture: Sun

Origin: United States

Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


Logo indicating plant is one of Plant Delights' Introductions

We grow lots of baptisia seed each year and this Baptisia leucophaea seedling stood out from all the rest after years of trials. We consequently named and introduced it in 2008. The early-emerging Baptisia 'Butterball' makes a compact 18" tall x 2' wide deer-resistant clump of glaucous foliage, adorned with obscenely large and floriferous pendulous spikes of creamy yellow flowers starting in early April (in NC). Baptisia leucophaea cuttings aren't the easiest things to root, so the supply of plants is very limited.