How to grow Lead Plant

Amorpha canescens

May die back to the ground during especially hard winter. Usually survives burning and may thrive after.

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The botanical epithet is from the Latin canescens meaning “becoming white; applied to plants covered with greyish-white pubescence”

It was once believed that this plant grew where there was lead in the ground.

Native Americans used this as a tea for pin worms and other parasites.

Leadplant

Amorpha canescens Pursh