AVAILABLE FALL 2025! Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)


AVAILABLE FALL 2025! Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)
Sun: full sun to part shade
Soil: prefers moist soils but adaptable to sandy and clay, pH adaptable, tolerant of flooding and drought
Growth rate: fast (1+ ft/year)
Mature size: 6-12 ft.
Landscape use: ornamental blooms, thickets/hedge rows (spreads by suckering), rain garden, riparian restoration
Fruit: small seeded pods
Flower: April to June, purple spires with gold stamens at the ends of branches
Fall color: modest yellow
Seasonal interest: flowers in spring, light airy greenery. throughout the growing season
Sustaining wildlife: nectar for bees and butterflies; larval host of California & southern dogfaces, Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus), Gray hairstreak, Hoary edge skipper; also attracts Andrenid bees, which are specialist pollinators for Amorpha species