Hairy Beard Tongue
Penstemon hirsutus
Purple and white flowers from May into July, worked by two-spotted bumble bees and black-and-gold bumble bees. It grows wild in 17 of Tennessee’s 95 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to average soil
- Size
- 1.7 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple and white, May to Jul
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 7 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
Heartleaf Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Calico Aster
Black Huckleberry
Small's Ragwort
Sweet GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Penstemon hirsutus.