Yellow Wild Indigo is a bushy native prairie wildflower with bright yellow pea-like flowers and clover-like leaves. Like blue wild indigo, it is a larval host for several specialist butterflies and a nitrogen-fixer. The plant turns black when dried and was used as a substitute for true indigo dye by early colonists.
Best time to see a Yellow Wild Indigo
The best time to see a Yellow Wild Indigo is May–July, when about 70% of U.S. sightings happen, based on 4,613 research-grade iNaturalist observations.
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