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
- 2–5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AZ, CO, KS, NE, NM, NV, UT