Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Peritoma serrulata
Rocky Mountain beeplant is a tall western annual with showy clusters of rose-purple flowers all summer, one of the very best native bee and pollinator plants for sunny, dry, sandy gardens. An easy reseeder.
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 3–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- white, purple
- Wildlife value
- larval host, pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, IA, ID, KS, MA, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY