This plant resembles a weed growing to about 60cm in height, and produces a flower of purple pea like flowers and miniature pea pods which are thought to be poisonous. The leaf structure consists of a main stem with opposite leaflets all the way along the stem in a herringbone fashion. Wild Indigo is common behind sand dunes along the coastline, but also grows in well drained sandy soil along creek lines and river banks. The entire plant and in particular the root system is crushed up and washed in small rocky catchments of water to poison fish. Within a . . .