???? BAPTISIA AUSTRALIS Baptisia Australis HARDY PERENNIAL Family: LeguminosaeA superb recent introduction from the North Carolina Botanical Garden, this lovely hybrid offers great potential as a specimen plant, when it will form a tall, bushy mound of grey-green foliage, with long spikes of fragrant, smoky violet-blue and purple flowers, held on black stems. It makes an excellent substitute for lupins in areas where they are difficult to grow. In addition it makes an excellent cut-flower, and is attractive to butterflies and also, once established it is very drought tolerant.