Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants The underside of each flower

The underside of each flower consists of nicely contrasting violet spurs

along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (Northern Arizona along the Utah border)

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

The top cover narrows to a point that hangs over the front of the pitcher and from inside emerges a purple

Baptisia minor Melissa Blue Dry Shade Plants The underside of each flower(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