Foxglove Beardtongue Plant

Looking for a wonderful plant for your prairie garden, native plant garden, or pollinator garden? Keep reading for more details on foxglove beardtongue and how to grow your own. Learn how to grow and care for Foxglove Beardtongue, a showy white flower native to Eastern North America. Find out its benefits, identification, uses, and where to buy it.

Learn about Penstemon digitalis, a native perennial with white to pale pink tubular flowers and a tall, statuesque habit. Find out how to grow, care, and propagate this plant in your garden. Penstemon digitalis (Foxglove Beardtongue) matures to 3' in height and has white to pink flowers.

It prefers medium to dry medium soils but can adapt to many light conditions: full sun to part shade such as clearings within forests, woods' edges, and savannas. It is very easy to grow from seed. The tubular flowers of this plant attract long-tongued bees, including honeybees, bumblebees, Miner.

Penstemon digitalis, commonly called foxglove beardtongue or tall white beardtongue, is a clump-forming, Missouri-native perennial which typically grows 3-5' tall and occurs in prairies, fields, wood margins, open woods and along railroad tracks. Features white, two-lipped, tubular flowers (to 1.25" long) borne in panicles atop erect, rigid stems. Plant in full sun to light shade in small groups in the native/pollinator garden, naturalized areas or borders.

Despite the specific epithet, this plant is not foxglove (Digitalis spp.) and lacks the toxicity associated with foxglove. It has no serious disease or pest problems. More information on Penstemon.

See this plant in the following. Mass in perennial borders, cut flower gardens, wild gardens, native plant gardens, naturalized areas, prairies or meadows. Beardtongue (Penstemon) plants come in a wide variety of sizes and colors.

Learn how to grow these flowers to attract plenty of bees and butterflies. Foxglove Beardtongue Penstemon Digitalis Plant Overview Often called the Foxglove Beardtongue, this native North American powerhouse bridges the gap between wild meadow charm and refined garden elegance. While its flowers resemble the classic, towering Foxglove, this plant is far hardier and more forgiving of difficult soils.

Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) is a truly exceptional native plant that offers significant ecological benefits. Its ability to support a diverse array of pollinators, from the smallest native bees to larger bumblebees, makes it an invaluable asset for any wildlife.