Baptisia arachnifera

My friend Ann brought some dried branches of Hairy Wild Indigo to  book club I really like it's taupe color unusual in nature. I think it would make a fine addition to a dried arrangement. At first I thought it was Eucalyptus

From the link below you can see it is an endangered plant. (This came from a garden source.) So we decided to try to propagate it for our gardens and who knows maybe extend it's range to  Greenville NC. You can see the seed pods at the end of the branches.
Seeds are eaten by weevils (a reason for the decreasing  populations) not all pods contained seed some only one.
http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/collection/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=537

On December 11th I tried some outdoors in a protected pot & some in the potting shed (no heat just passive solar through the windows). Some were soaked overnight to help break the hard seed coat.

Today I took this photo of the unsoaked seeds in the potting shed. The media was wet and enclosed in a plastic bag. In my rain garden Baptisia australis has self seeded so I guessed it might need a wet environment to germinated. Voila! I know it is hard to see but 3 or 4 seeds are coming up.

More on this later