Hoary Skullcap
Scutellaria incana
Blue and purple flowers from June into September, worked by digger bees and wool carder bees. It grows wild in 12 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.8 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and purple, Jun to Sep
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 23 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Digger bee (Anthophora terminalis), Wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum), Mining bee (Protandrena labrosiformis), Mining bee (Andrena accepta)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Hairy Beard Tongue
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Scutellaria incana.