False Indigo

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers

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Senses

2 more senses beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers

Wordset Dictionary

any of several plants of the genus Baptisia

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

5 surface forms

synonym: bastard indigowild indigo
plural: False Indigoes
possessive: False Indigo's
pluralpossessive: False Indigoes'

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