So if you’re looking for a beautiful, late-blooming ‘climate-ready’ plant to support our pollinator friends –look no further than wingstem!
Photo: Lisa Schneider
SBG KS
Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia), a member of the Aster family, is a particularl favorite of native bees and honey bees–and beekeepers, at least, have known this for a long time! Numerous beekeeping journals from the late 1800s–early 1900s describe the cultivation of wingstem en masse, and its seeds were marketed as ‘golden honey plant’. More recently, in evaluating drought- and flood-resilient native plants, the Xerces Society studies found that wingstem consistently attracted the greatest pollinator abundance and diversity among these plant communities.Wingstem’s common name derives from the small winged fruits or ‘achenes’ that form when bloom time is finished. At the SBG, you’ll find it (appropriately) in our Native Bee Conservation area. It’s deer-resistant, and is also a host plant for silvery checkerspot and summer azure butterflies.
So if you’re looking for a beautiful, late-blooming ‘climate-ready’ plant to support our pollinator friends –look no further than wingstem! Photo: Lisa Schneider Snetsinger Butterfly Garden Knowledge Series
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