Yellow Beeplant
Peritoma lutea
Yellow beeplant is a Great Basin annual that lifts showy heads of golden flowers on branching stems, a superb, drought-tolerant nectar and pollen source for native bees in sunny, dry western gardens.
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 2.7–2.7 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NE, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY