Goat's Rue
Tephrosia virginiana
Goat's rue is a silky-leaved native legume of dry sandy ground with striking bicolored pink-and-cream pea flowers in early summer, a nitrogen-fixing, drought-proof plant and larval host for several butterflies.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.75–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- pink, yellow
- Wildlife value
- butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV