The Plant Store is now closed for 2023 and will re-open for sales in May of 2024

  • Please see the Using the Plant Library  page  for some tips on how to make the most of the information here to select species for creating a healthy native plant community suited to the conditions of your site.

~ Peritoma serrulata, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant 

Peritoma serrulata (Previously Cleome serrulata) 

Rocky Mountain Bee Plant 

  • Annual
  • Average to Dry Soils
  • Full Sun 
  • Up to 48” tall, 12” to 18” spacing
  • Summer to Early Fall Blooms
  • Thrives in Meadow and Dry Meadow Ecosystems and will grow in containers
  • Native to North America, from Manitoba west, but not to Ontario

Still new to my gardens grown from seeds sourced from Prairie Moon Nursery.

https://www.prairiemoon.com/cleome-serrulata-rocky-mountain-bee-plant-prairie-moon-nursery.html 

Also known as Spider Flower, this is the wild version of a familiar garden annual that grows to roughly 4' in height and 12" wide.

Please check out the Prairie Moon listing at the link above for more details.

Photos by USFWS Mountain-Prairie, USDI Bureau of Land Management and Andrey Zharkikh via Wikimedia Commons 


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Species that were not sown / aren't being sown for 2023 are marked with an * 
Species that are native to this continent, but not historically native to Ontario are marked with a ~ 
While it rarely comes up, I do reserve the right to limit plant quantities, mostly to help ensure that as many native plant gardens as possible become a reality
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