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}]