White Turtlehead
Chelone glabra
Pink and white flowers from July into October, worked by masked bees and sweat bees. Baltimore Checkerspot caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 35 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Jul to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Baltimore Checkerspot
- Caterpillars
- 4 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 3 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Masked bee (Hylaeus annulatus), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum viridatum), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum admirandum), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum ephialtum)
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Robin's-plantain
Black Huckleberry
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Chelone glabra.