- Bloom Time: May – June
- Bloom Color: Purple
- Height: 2 feet
- Sun: Full, partial
- Soil: Medium-dry to dry
Penstemon grandiflorus
Caterpillar food for
Saunders’s Sallow (Sympistis saundersiana), Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia), Confused Haploa (Haploa confusa), American Bordered Sallow (Pyrrhia cilisca), Purple-Lined Sallow (Pyrrhia exprimens)
Attracts these pollinators:
Black and Gold Bumble Bee (Bombus auricomus), Brown-belted Bumble Bee
(Bombus griseocollis), Common Eastern Bumble Bee
(Bombus impatiens)
More information: Minnesota Wildflowers
Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region, public domain