Any of several plants of the genus Baptisia.
1 This plain was covered with wild indigo , and abounded with peafowl.
2 The dye was made by digging up red shank and wild indigo roots which were boiled.
3 We saw wild indigo around the missions of San Miguel de Davipe, San Carlos, and Mandavaca.
4 They was dyed with copperas and wild indigo .
5 The terraced slopes of the mountains, ablaze with wild indigo , closed in upon him and widened out.
6 She dye wid copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and make pretty cloth.
7 The plants and bushes were dry; but wild indigo abounded, as indeed it does over large tracts of Africa.
8 Homespun clothing, dyed with the extract of black-walnut bark or wild indigo or swamp maple or elderberries, was worn by everybody.
9 For dye, he says they would boil wild indigo , poke berries, walnuts and some tree for which he has an undecipherable name.
10 The spinning wheel came again into use, and homespun clothing, dyed with the extract of black-walnut bark, or with wild indigo , was generally worn.
11 The " wild indigo tree," was also seen growing in the woods, with a leaf narrow at the base, and broad at the extremity.
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