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Mississippi
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue in flower
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Eastern Smooth Beardtongue

Penstemon laevigatus

It grows wild in 39 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.

Light
Full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
2.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
Flowers
Purple and white
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
A clump of fibrous roots
Kind
Wildflower
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Eastern Smooth Beardtongue, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Caterpillars
8 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
46 kinds of native bees
Birds
2 kinds of birds
On its flowers
Two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimaculatus), Black-and-gold bumble bee (Bombus auricomus), Digger bee (Anthophora terminalis), Golden northern bumble bee (Bombus fervidus)

Grows well with

Aromatic Aster2 ft tallShowy Goldenrod4 ft tallCommon Wild Quinine3 ft tallSteeplebush3 ft tallDense Blazing-star4 ft tallSouthern Arrowwood8 ft tallRattlesnake-master5 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Penstemon laevigatus.