Bee Plant, Yellow

Cleome lutea

Excellent pollinator plant! Great Basin native!

This beautiful cousin of our beloved Rocky Mountain Bee Plant has all the same intrigue--beautiful leaves, oddball growth habit, luscious long-blooming flowers with oh-so-accessible stamens--but it's a bit shorter, reaching roughly 2 1/2 feet tall, and it has yellow flowers instead of purple ones.  Delightfully reseeding annual. Best sown in fall or early spring for summer blooms. The pollinators will love you for planting this plant!

Seeds were sustainably wildcrafted in the Great Basin by Kyle and friends at Native-Seed Company.

50 seeds.

Directions: Direct sow in late fall, make sure the soil remains moist until the following spring. Yellow bee plant requires anywhere from 1 to 6 months of cold stratification to germinate. For artificial cold stratification, mix the seeds with moist sand in a plastic bag. Put the bag in a clean jar and the place in the refrigerator for at least 1 month, up to 6 months. After stratification, you can either direct sow the seed outside or start indoors in containers.