Description
Range: Keweenaw 🥇
Light: Partial Shade, Shade
Soil: Loam
Moisture: Medium
Benefits: Pollinators, Bumblebees, Deer Resistant
Height: 4″ to 1′
Blooms: Apr, May
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Color: White, Cream
Spacing: 3″ to 6″
Root: Bulbous
Among the first spring wildflowers to bloom, Dutchman’s breeches is especially valuable to emerging queen bumblebees looking for nectar. The plant can be found along gentle slopes, forest floors, ledges, valleys, and ravines and flowers best in dappled sunlight. A spring ephemeral, Dutchman’s breeches goes dormant and disappears by mid-summer, so pair it with later flowering plants such as false Solomon’s seal.
