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.