Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Seeds (Peritoma serrulata)

Formerly known as Cleome serrulata. Don’t be fooled by the mountain range in the name, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant occurs across most of the West, including much of the inland Northwest The other part of the name is accurate however -- this is possibly one of our best dryland plants for…well…attracting a ton of bees. We’ve long marveled at descriptions of this dazzling, gangly plant in old beekeeping books from the past century when it was praised for yielding more than a hundred pounds of honey per hive in under two weeks, building up 2 to 3 supers (surplus honey boxes) per hive over a 3-week period, and supplying nectar with sugar concentrations approaching an impressive 30%. More than that however, this is simply a fascinating, useful, and joyful plant to have around. Valued by native people for centuries, beeplant or bee plant was noted by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, perhaps standing out for its outlandishly showy pink/white/purple flowers with their elongated stamens, which are n