This plain was covered with wild indigo, and abounded with peafowl.
The “wild indigo tree,” was also seen growing in the woods, with a leaf narrow at the base, and broad at the extremity.
She dye wid copperas and walnut and wild indigo and things like dat and make pretty cloth.
The plants and bushes were dry; but wild indigo abounded, as indeed it does over large tracts of Africa.
Baptisia tinctoria furnishes a blue dye, and is the wild indigo of the United States.
The dye was made by digging up red shank and wild indigo roots which were boiled.
Several are to be found in April and May amid the wild indigo that grows on the Lahore golf links.
Large doses of wild indigo are emetic and cathartic and may prove dangerous.