Plant Type

Annual

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

Pink, Purple, White

 

Flower Season

Summer, Fall

 

Leaf Color

Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Spider flower is a fast-growing annual that typically rises 3 to 6 feet tall on rigid stems. Blooms appear at the ends of the stems and are clusters of pink, purple or white spider-like flowers with protruding stamens, and it blooms from summer to frost. Flowers are sweetly fragrant. Flowers are followed by thin seed pods that ripen to brown before splitting open and dispersing the seed. Aromatic, sticky, palmate green leaves with lance-shaped leaflets have sharp spines at the base of each leaf stalk. Attractive to hummingbirds (nectar), birds (seed), and butterflies.