1. Any of several plants of the genus Baptisia
   "The false indigo's blue-purple flowers stood tall in the prairie landscape";
   - 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
   "False indigo thrived along the river's edge";
   - 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
   "False indigo brightened the coastal hillsides";
   - bastard indigo, Amorpha californica

Derived forms: false indigos

Type of: amorpha, ligneous plant, woody plant

Part of: Baptisia, genus Baptisia

Encyclopedia: False indigo