false indigo
n 1: any of several plants of the genus Baptisia [syn: wild
indigo]
2: dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the
eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage
and dense racemes of dark purple flowers [syn: bastard
indigo, Amorpha fruticosa]
3: an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of
the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
[syn: bastard indigo, Amorpha californica]