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Baptisia

Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'
is a distinctive perennial that produces enchanting smoky violet flowers with a purple eye on strongly upright, charcoal-grey stems up to 1 1/2 feet long. They are held just above the dense, bushy mounds of grey-green foliage from mid to late spring.

Baptisia Seed Pod

Baptisias, also known as false or wild indigos, are a group of large, long-lived perennials. They provide an extended season of interest from flowers and foliage.

Blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis) and yellow wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) were used to produce a blue dye by Native Americans. The True indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) produces a better quality blue dye.

In a large expanse of the Eastern United States, the Baptisias were known to repopulate burned areas. It was an important plant for honey production. The Baptisia tinctoria, are the most attractive Baptisia to honeybees.
The botanical name Baptisia originates from the Greek word bapto, meaning, to dye or to dip.

Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'

As the summer moves on, the seeds of the Baptisia form in an upright pod and add an interesting form and color to the landscape. The pods form a vivid green color and mature into a dark blue shade as the warm August summer reminds us of the coming harvest season.The false indigo to the left has been passed down for four generations.

Landscape design in full sun, using wild indigo in a raised mound with other perennials or groundcover. I was pleased to see Miranda Brooks, using Baptisia in Anna Wintour's, wild butterfly garden.

ROSID, FABALES ORDER, FABACEAE FAMILY, FABOIDEAE, SOPHOREAE, BAPTISIA

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Violet Ombré Berries

The mature purple berries feed cardinals and finches, and the shrub offers them a protective site.

American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana is a native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries.

Plant deciduous trees and shrubs along the south and west side of your house to provide shade in the summer, and, all the sun to provide solar heat in the winter.

During the Texas 2011 drought, I experimented with a planting of beautyberry to increase our use of Texas natives.

The beautyberry is doing well this year and the dramatic purple berries are living up to the name.

Beautyberries are possibly best used in a naturalized setting. I have included a White berried beautyberry (Callicarpa american var. lactea) in a corner of the backyard, underneath native oaks.

Callicarpa L.

Taxonomy: Verbena Family Verbenaceae the taxonomy is undergoing many changes and depending on the system used, the beautyberry can be found in the Lamiaceae family | Mint Family in updated charts.

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Explore the Genus Callicarpa.

ACCEPTED SPECIES (ITIS)
Callicarpa americana L. – American beautyberry	southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland; Cuba, Bermuda, Bahamas
Callicarpa ampla Schauer – capa rosa, caparosa	Puerto Rico
Callicarpa candicans (Burm. f.) Hochr.	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K. Koch – purple beautyberry	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa formosana Rolfe
Callicarpa japonica Thunb. – Japanese callicarpa	China, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan
Callicarpa lamii Hosok.	Mariana Islands

References for the Genus Callicarpa.

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Callicarpa Dichotoma 'duet'. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, 2008. Internet resource.
Hyams, Edward. Ornamental Shrubs for Temperate Zone Gardens. , 1967. Print.
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Marshall, William; Planting and Rural Ornament : Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise; 48-109; Cambridge University Press : Cambridge
Paluch, Gretchen E, and Joel R. Coats. Recent Developments in Invertebrate Repellents. , 2011. Internet resource.
Zampardo, Mark. Guide to Identifying Trees and Shrubs Plants A-L: Includes Conifers, Vines and Groundcovers. Cork: BookBaby, 2014. Print.
Fire Effects FEIS https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/calame/all.html
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Lamiales". Missouri Botanical Garden.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - Callicarpa". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. 2007: Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Leeratiwong, C., Chantaranothai, P. & Paton, A.J. (2009). A synopsis of the genus Callicarpa L. (Lamiaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 37: 36-58.
Bramley, G.L. (2009). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) on Borneo. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159: 416-455.
Bramley, G.L.C. (2013). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) in the Philippines. Kew Bulletin 68: 369-418.
Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4, 紫珠属 zi zhu shu,Callicarpa Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 111. 1753.
Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
"Learning from our elders: Folk Remedy Yields Mosquito-Thwarting Compound". Agricultural Research. Agricultural Research Service. February 6, 2006.
Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes University Of Mississippi (ScienceDaily) July 3, 2006
Species Information". sun.ars-grin.gov.
Cantrell, C. L.; Klun, J. A.; Bryson, C. T.; Kobaisy, M.; Duke, S. O. (2005). "Isolation and Identification of Mosquito Bite Deterrent Terpenoids from Leaves of American (Callicarpa americana) and Japanese (Callicarpa japonica) Beautyberry". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 53 (15): 5948–53. doi:10.1021/jf0509308. PMID 16028979.
CoL	Species 2000 Catalog of Life	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/
ITIS	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (USGS and Smithsonian	itis.gov
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life	https://eol.org/
BONAP (distribution maps)	Biota of North America	http://www.bonap.org
BONAP	Biota of North America	https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613085-SCIOPS.html
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility	https://www.gbif.org/
USDA (maps)	United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database	https://plants.usda.gov/home
ARS-GRIN	Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)	https://www.ars-grin.gov/
LJWC	Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas Native Plant Database	www.wildflower.org/plants
TAMU (Texas)	Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas (Native trees)	https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/texasnativetrees/
UofTX (Texas)	The University of Texas, Billie L. Turner Plant Resource Center	http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/K12/
iNat	California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society	https://www.inaturalist.org/
GSPC	Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)	http://www.theplantlist.org/
WFO	World Flora Online (WFO)	www.worldfloraonline.org
MBG	Missouri Botanical Garden	https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
NYBG	The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)	https://www.nybg.org/
RBGE	The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)	http://www.rbge.org.uk/
RBG	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	https://www.kew.org/
IPNI	International Plant Name Index	IPNI.org
(wetlands)	U. S. Army Corp of Engineers Wetlands, Vermont, N H.	http://wetland-plants.usace.army.mil/nwpl_static/v34/home/home.html
NAEB BRIT	Native American Ethnobotany (BRIT and University of Michigan - Dearborn) (SYOR)	http://naeb.brit.org
NPN	Native Plant Network - USDA Forest Service	https://npn.rngr.net/
SEINet (includes)	SW Biodivirsity	http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/
	Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
	Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria
	Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
	Madrean Discovery Expeditions (MDE)
	Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium
	North American Network of Small Herbaria
	North Great Plains Herbaria
	Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
	SERNEC (Southeast USA)
	Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)

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Taxonomy: Verbena Family Verbenaceae the taxonomy is undergoing many changes and depending on the system used, the beautyberry can be found in the Lamiaceae family | Mint Family in updated charts.