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