Obedient Plant (Physostegia Virginiana)

Local Name: Obedient Plant

Botanical Name: Physostegia virginiana

Life Cycle: perennial

Light: part sun - full sun

Moisture: mesic - wet

Morphology Notes: 36” with slender foliage and a radical amount of pink tube-like flowers from all summer long. It never quits. Even seeds capsules are an attractive green color.

Habit and habitat: Despite its common name this plant is NOT obedient. It can spread from rhizomes and seed. But its gorgeous and bees love it. Plant it!

Native Status: MN Native

Provenance: Unknown

Special Powers: Apparently its called Obedient plants because you can move the flowers from left to right and they stay in the position you leave them. Plant it and find out if its real or fake news.