Product Description
Late blooming native perennial, with big pink or white flowers (usually 4” across). Three-lobed green are silver underneath.
Bushy clumps look like little shrubs.Can be grown in average garden soil, if it doesn't tend to dry out too much.
Attracts native bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
The leaves may be damaged by Japanese beetles (in this case, use an organic treatment to protect useful pollinators).
Blooming Time: July/August to September
Size: 4-5’ tall and wide
USDA Zones: 5 to 8
Culture: full sun, half sun, half shade, loam, loamy clay, clay, moderately fertile to fertile soil with average moisture to wet. Prefers soils around neutral pH or slightly acidic.
Moisture Needs: average (medium), medium-wet, wet, shallow standing water, occasionally flooded areas. In nature grows in wet spots, but does well in average garden soil, if it doesn't tend to dry out too much
Origin: native wildflower in states from Ontario to Massachusetts and Florida and west to Wisconsin and down to Texas and New Mexico, with a presence in a few scattered western states. See the BONAP distribution map. Grows in swampy forests, wet meadows, marshes and on the banks of lakes or other water bodies.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes (but young plants might be occasionally browsed by deer)
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: the main pollinators are bumblebees and other long-tongued bees (inc. the specialists Melitoma taurea and Ptilothrix bombiformis - Rose Mallow bee). Host plant for caterpillars of caterpillars of Common Checkered Skipper, Painted Lady butterfly (those feed on the leaves) and caterpillars of the butterfly Gray Hairstreak butterfly (feed on the seeds), and also caterpillars of several moths - Delightful Bird-Dropping Moth, Yellow Scallop Moth, Io Moth and Pearly Wood Nymph.
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright: Dan Keckr, Commons Wikipedia
Plant combinations: Suitable for sunny borders with average moist to wet (saturated) soil, rain gardens, around small ponds and water bodies. Can be planted as a solitary plant or in a border with Asclepias incarnata, Boltonia, Eupatorium (shorter cultivars), Filipendula rubra, Chelone, Iris virginiana, Iris versicolor, I. x louisiana, Lobelia, Physostegia, Rudbeckia fulgida, Veronicastrum or grasses like Panicum virgatum, Carex muskingumensis, Carex grayi and others. Other non-native companions include Euphorbia palustris, Geum, Filipendula, Hemerocallis, moisture loving Irises (I. leavigata, I. ensata, I. pseudata, I. sibirica, I. spuria), Sanquisorba, grasses like Calamagrostis, Molinia.