Baptisia ? variicolor ‘Twilite’ TWILITE PRAIRIEBLUES PP#19011

‘Twilite’ is an upright, mounded perennial that typically grows to 3-5′ tall with a mature spread to 5′ wide. It is noted for its bicolor flowers, trifoliate blue green leaves, abundant flowering stems, ornamental seed pods and vigorous upright growth. Violet-purple flowers with showy yellow keels bloom in erect racemes (to 12-20" long) from late April to early June atop stiff flower stems that rise well above a foliage mound of clover-like trifoliate green leaves (leaflets to 3" long). Flowers give way to inflated globose-oblong seed pods that emerge green but mature to black by August. Seed pods have considerable ornamental interest. Stems with seed pods are valued additions to dried flower arrangements. U. S. Plant Patent PP19,011 was issued on July 8, 2008.