false indigo
      n 1: any of several plants of the genus Baptisia [syn: wild
           indigo]
      2: dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the
         eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage
         and dense racemes of dark purple flowers [syn: bastard
         indigo, Amorpha fruticosa]
      3: an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of
         the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
         [syn: bastard indigo, Amorpha californica]