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Gardening

Botany

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3. Lead plant likes things on the dryer side.

Reply to hibbing (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2019, 02:54 PM

Apr 2019

From my buddy Neil's biz in Wisconsin.

Leadplant (Amorpha canescens) exhibits a unique display of both foliage and flowers. Spikes of iridescent purple flowers extend above the delicate silver-gray foliage in the heat of midsummer. The deep taproot makes it extremely drought tolerant and able to thrive in any well-drained soil. An extremely long lived plant, Leadplant is one of the few true shrubs of the prairie. As a woody shrub, the plant will take a few years to become fully mature, during which time it should not be cut back.

this might help too.

https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b260

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Throwing a dart here: Amorpha canescens - Leadplant [View all] hibbing Apr 2019 OP

loads of info try this... msongs Apr 2019 #1

Yeah, thanks hibbing Apr 2019 #2

Lead plant likes things on the dryer side. Botany Apr 2019 #3