Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant | Prairie Shoestring | 200_Seeds Hickory Hairstreak

Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant | Prairie Shoestring | 200_Seeds Hickory HairstreakThis is Amorpha canescens, also known as Lead Plant and Prairie Shoestring. This attractive butterfly plant must be grown in full sun and will bloom from late Summer until early Fall where it will attract several pollinators and countless birds, bees, and butterflies. Leadplant is the larval host plant to the Southern Dogface and Gray Hairstreak butterlies. USDA Hardiness Zones 2 to 9.

USDA Hardiness Zones 6b to 10

Did I mention that these are extremely deer resistant

This is a larval host plant for the Wild Indigo Duskywing butterfly

This is a tropical shrub with woody branched stems

This seed is a result of many years of artificial selection

but they grow up above 1500 meters so they have the potential to be somewhat hardy

and then to a dark red

This shrub can grow to about 6 feet tall and blooms repeatedly from late Spring until early Fall

It likes to live in sun to partial shade where it blooms from late Spring thru the middle of the Summer

Unripened flower buds can be cooked and eaten

This is a twining evergreen vine

Horn of Plenty