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FALSE INDIGO - a native, multi-stemmed shrub occurring along waterways throughout the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. False Indigo, a legume, has pinnately compound leaves and dark purple flowers followed by very small pods as fruit. Height and spread on favorable sites is 4 to 7 feet. Tolerates poor to well-drained sites and seasonally standing water. Useful for erosion control in streambank plantings or low areas of fields where other woody shrubs drown out. "