This species is not so popular compared to other species such as I. tinctoria, I. jucunda, I. cordifolia, thus no information has been found regarding medicinal or cultural uses. It would make a beautiful garden plant with its showy pink summer flowers. Its growth form may not be ideal for some gardeners, but it can be planted in groups, and annual winter pruning might promote a more bushy growth habit.

Some Indigofera species have a lot of economic potential for green manure, soil stabilizers, forage crops, chemical compounds for pharmaceutical industry, poison, seed gums, traditional medicines, dyes, insecticides and horticultural ornamental.

Indigofera species are popularly used for indigo dye. The production of paints using indigo blue pigments has been dated to the 1st century. In West African countries, clothing dyed with indigo dye, symbolized wealth. The colonial North Americans referred to it as blue gold and considered it as a high value commodity. The clothing industry in central and southern America, used Indigofera suffruticosa for the extraction, whereas the Asians and Indians used Indigofera tinctoria for the same purpose.