Slimpod

The blue tubular flower opens into 5 petal-like lobes with a white center. Several blossoms grow in a loose cluster. Narrow seed pods and dark yellow fall color make this an attractive garden plant.



Wildflower garden. Blooms late spring. Fall foliage color is orange-yellow.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are attracted to the nectar. 

Avoided by mammalian herbivores.

Flatwoods, chalky hills.

• Fall color, Showy flowers
• The flowers attract long-tongued insects such as carpenter bees, hummingbird moths, and butterflies.  Not known to be a larval plant for monarch butterflies.