Creeping Indigo Indigofera spicata host or larval food plant
with a Ceraunus Blue butterfly Hemiargus ceraunus

Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus butterfly
caught in mid-flight

Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
drinking from an aster flower.

Botanical Name: Indigofera spicata

Common Name: Trailing Indigo, Creeping Indigo

Native Host Plant

Plant type: This groundcover is a weed and will grow readily from seed, layering, or cuttings. It makes a beautiful hanging basket. Add plants and seed to ditches, fencelines, retaining areas, railroad lines, empty fields, cow pastures, and other areas are ideal places to plant Creeping Indigo.

Light: Sun to partial shade

Size: Up to 3" high

Water: Average to low

Soil: Will grow in almost any soil

Propagation: Seed, layering, and cuttings

Bloom: Coral

Note: Host plant for Ceraunus Blue, Gray Hairstreak, and Zarucco Duskywing butterflies.

Note: Serves as a nectar plant for several species of butterflies.