Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Uruguay corrugated blue leaves surrounded by

corrugated blue leaves surrounded by a wide border and topped in late spring with short spikes of pure white flowers

the bright yellow

interspersed in late fall and again in late winter/early spring with fragrant dark purple flowers nestled just below the leaf tips

clothed in 2' long x 6' wide

The two 5-leaflet leaves are held atop 12" stems

Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Uruguay corrugated blue leaves surrounded byWe've grown Indigofera kirilowii for nearly 30 years, and assumed it all looked about the same as the 18" tall form we grew oh, were we wrong. In 2014, when visiting the Cincinnati Zoo, Director of Horticulture, Steve Foltz, showed me their clone, which came from the late plantsman, Buddy Hubbuch, at Kentucky's Bernheim Arboretum. There it grew, 5' tall heart be still! Since Indigofera kirilowii has a huge range from outer Mongolia south into Japan