What is the meaning of false indigo?

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  • Any of several plants of the genus Baptisia.
  • Dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers.
  • An erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers.
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