Yellow Bee Plant Seeds (Peritoma lutea)

An extraordinary long-blooming honey plant, regularly producing nectar of more than 20% sugar concentrations (sometimes concentrations of more than 30%!). Found across the inland West from Eastern Washington and Northern Great Plains, south into Mexico, yellow bee plant is typically a plant of arid spaces – of sagebrush and Ponderosa pine landscapes. Withing those lands, it is most common in recently disturbed locations where it can quickly establish before any other vegetation. That said, it is somewhat more adaptable and can grow in non-arid landscapes but in such places it will need assistance to keep competing plants at a distance (it does not thrive when crowded). Often growing to more than 36-inches in height, yellow bee plant produces showy yellow compound flowers, with ridiculously beautiful long slender stamens, and palm-shaped leaves. This is an annual plant, but one with a long bloom period lasting from mid-summer through heavy autumn frosts. As the name implies, this is pro