Baptisia alba

Also known as White False Indigo, Prairie White Wild Indigo

White wild indigo lifts tall racemes of creamy white pea flowers above smooth charcoal grey stems and blue-green foliage in late spring. Deep taproots allow this bushy native perennial to survive intense droughts and prairie fires once established. As autumn arrives, dark pods inflate and dry, rattling softly in the wind as they scatter seeds across the grassland.