Montell Bractspike
Yeatesia platystegianative · Central Texas
Montell Bractspike is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 1–2 ft tall and 0.5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms white and purple in Jun–Aug. Good for nectar insects.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 0.5 ft
- Bloom
- Jun–Aug · white, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on moist, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports nectar insects
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Southern Texas Plain
6 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.