Piloblephis rigida
While you can’t sit and drink Pennyroyal tea with this species, you can sit and enjoy watching the pollinators, especially rare native bees, go crazy over this flower when it’s in bloom! Pennyroyal is a low-growing groundcover-like shrub with pink cones of attractive, delicate, and pink flowers and minty aromatic foliage. Takes drier conditions.
Piloblephis rigida
While you can’t sit and drink Pennyroyal tea with this species, you can sit and enjoy watching the pollinators, especially rare native bees, go crazy over this flower when it’s in bloom! Pennyroyal is a low-growing groundcover-like shrub with pink cones of attractive, delicate, and pink flowers and minty aromatic foliage. Takes drier conditions.
Native, perennial, evergreen, small shrub; 1-2’
Full sun, average to dry well-draining sandy soils
Showy, fragrant, lavender blooms
Early bloom period in late winter supplies an important pollen and nectar source
Endemic to Florida, attracts butterflies and rare bees!
