Description

Key Information:

Soil: Mesic (Medium) – Xeric (Dry)
Sun: Full Sun
Height: 6-20 inches
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Season: May – July

More Detail:

Suggested Uses: White Beardstongue is great for prairie restorations, rock gardens and butterfly gardens. Thrives in dry, sandy or gravelly soils. A beneficial plant for bumble bees.

Native Range: Native to the Great Plains, including western Minnesota.

Pollinators: Native bees (including bumble bees)!

Flowers: White, bilaterally symmetrical, 3/4″ long, 5 lobed which grow on a spike.

Leaves: The opposite leaves are simple, ovate to oblong and 1-4 inches long.

Other Names: White Penstemon

More information: USDA plant profile

Photo credit:  By Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA , CC BY-SA 2.0