Wild Indigo Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) is yellow wild indigo or horsefly weed, a bushy perennial of the legume family, Fabaceae, native to eastern North America from Maine to Florida and Minnesota, where it grows in dry open woods, clearings and sandy fields. It forms a rounded, much-branched clump 60 to 90 cm tall with small, blue-green, clover-like leaves of three leaflets that turn black when dried, and in summer bears short racemes of bright yellow pea flowers followed by small, inflated, blue-black pods. The plant yielded a weak blue dye, hence its name. We extract the dried root.