Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants Justicia suberecta) Dicliptera suberecta is

Justicia suberecta) Dicliptera suberecta is one of the few ornamentals from Uruguay that we grow

The underside of each flower consists of nicely contrasting violet spurs

topped in spring with a flower that includes a purple to violet pouch with similarly colored arching sepals

From these culms

Amorphophallus yuloensis produces a 2' tall green stalk (occasionally with a few silver spots)

Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants Justicia suberecta) Dicliptera suberecta is(syn: Baptisia australis var. minor A1T 002) If you have only grown Baptisia australis, then you've missed one of the best blue flowered members of the genus Baptisia. Baptisia minor is its little known cousin that's actually superior to Baptisia australis in garden value. Take a Baptisia australis and shrink the leaves and plant by about half, attach an 18 24" flower spike atop the clump, which is loaded with blue lavender flowers from mid April