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Baptisia tinctoria Yellow Wild Indigo


Native To: New York City Wetland Indicator: UPL Soil: pH 5.8-7.0


Form/Color Perennial, grows to 3', sometimes Stormwater Insufficient information to determine
mounding, freely branched, flowers Tolerance: tolerance.
yellow, in short, unbranched clusters in


June-July. Urban Adapted to coarse and medium soils,
Tolerance: no tolerance of soil compaction.


Habitat: Dry, open areas, sandy soil.


Ecosystem Moderately palatable by browse


Services: animals, host to some butterfly
species.


Hydrology: High tolerance to drought.


Ornamental Small rounded, blue-green foliage in


Value: threes along thin green stems. Yellow Compatibility:


flowers at tips of branches. Seed pods
turn black and rattle when mature.


Salt Intolerant of salt.


Tolerance: Other: Leaves are black when dead,
nitrogen fixer.
Shade Tolerant of partial shade.


Tolerance:


Bidens frondosa Beggar Ticks


Native To: New York City Wetland Indicator: FACW Soil: pH 5.2-7.2


Form/Color Annual, grows to 4', purple stems, flowers Stormwater Insufficient information to determine


yellow in June-October. Tolerance: tolerance.


Urban Adapted to coarse and medium soils,
Tolerance: moderate tolerance of soil


compaction.
Habitat: Wet, open areas, fields, edges, disturbed


soil.
Ecosystem Seeds eaten by birds, plant eaten by
Services: rabbits.


Hydrology: Low tolerance to drought.


Ornamental Yellow flower heads without rays can


Value: reach up to 4 ft tall. The distinctive seeds Compatibility: Can be weedy.


are flat and awned, hitchhiking with all
those that pass it by.


Salt Intolerant of salt.


Tolerance: Other:


Shade Moderately tolerant of shade.
Tolerance:

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