Rattlesnake-master
Eryngium yuccifolium
It grows wild in 28 of Tennessee’s 95 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 5 ft to 6 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and white
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 6 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 46 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Southern plains bumble bee (Bombus fraternus), Cellophane bee (Colletes mandibularis), Sweat bee (Halictus parallelus), Cuckoo leafcutter bee (Coelioxys sayi)
Grows well with
Showy Goldenrod
Aromatic Aster
Southern Arrowwood
Common Wild Quinine
Orange Coneflower
Scarlet Beebalm
Steeplebush
Dense Blazing-starFacts from the Quercus record for Eryngium yuccifolium.