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Penstemon hirsutus - HAIRY BEARDTONGUE

Product Code: PEN-HIR-X
Shipping: Calculated at Checkout
$6.99

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable.

Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut.

Blooming Time: from late May to late June.
Size: 18" tall x 12" wide, airy clusters of changeable multicolored purple-pinkish-white flowers
USDA Zones: 3-9
Culture: 
sun, half shade, light shade, adaptable to many soil types, tolerates clay, moist, medium moist, medium-dry soil. Avoid waterlogged soils! Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium (average), medium-dry to dry
Origin: Native to north eastern states and Canada, see the USDA distribution map.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes / yes. Long-tongued bees = honeybees, bumblebees, Anthophorine bees, digger bees, mason bees, and leaf-cutting bees. Less common then Halictid bees, Sphinx moths etc.
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes
Plant Combinations: Flower beds in sun or half shade, rock garden, bigger crevice gardens, cut flower gardens, xeriscape. Good with Echinacea, Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Gaura, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.

Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture Copyright:
US Perennials

 

 

Out of stock

Penstemon hirsutus - HAIRY BEARDTONGUE

$6.99
 

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable.

Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut.

Blooming Time: from late May to late June.
Size: 18" tall x 12" wide, airy clusters of changeable multicolored purple-pinkish-white flowers
USDA Zones: 3-9
Culture: 
sun, half shade, light shade, adaptable to many soil types, tolerates clay, moist, medium moist, medium-dry soil. Avoid waterlogged soils! Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium (average), medium-dry to dry
Origin: Native to north eastern states and Canada, see the USDA distribution map.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes / yes. Long-tongued bees = honeybees, bumblebees, Anthophorine bees, digger bees, mason bees, and leaf-cutting bees. Less common then Halictid bees, Sphinx moths etc.
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes
Plant Combinations: Flower beds in sun or half shade, rock garden, bigger crevice gardens, cut flower gardens, xeriscape. Good with Echinacea, Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Gaura, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.

Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture Copyright:
US Perennials

 

 

 

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  • Native plants 5

    Posted by Marilyn L Bauchat on Oct 20 2021

    I can't wait to see this bloom next year!