Rocky Mountain Beeplant

Peritoma serrulata

Rocky Mountain Beeplant (Cleome serrulata / Peritoma serrulata) is an annual forb native to Western and Central US states (such as Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, and Utah) that can thrive in USDA Zones 3–9 as a warm-season annual. Reaching a mature height of 2–4 feet with a tall, erect, branched growth habit, it features trifoliate green leaves and produces showy, spherical terminal clusters of reddish-purple to pink flowers with long protruding stamens. It thrives in dry, sandy or gravelly plains, roadsides, and river washes in full sun and is ideal for dryland roadside revegetation, native bee forage, and soil stabilization.

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