Description
Common Name: Bear’s Breeches
Type: Herbaceous perennial
Family: Acanthaceae
Zone: 5 to 9
Height: 3.00 to 4.00 feet
Spread: 2.00 to 3.00 feet
Bloom Time: June to August
Bloom Description: Pure white, snapdragon-like flowers enclosed by spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes
Sun: Part sun to part shade, some afternoon shade
Water: Medium, well-drained soil
Maintenance: Low
Flower: Showy, Pink-mauve snapdragon-like flowers
Leaf: Colorful, deeply-cut, arching, glossy green, spiny, thistle-like leaves (2-3′ long) forming an ornamental mound of long-stalked, basal foliage which usually remains attractive throughout the growing season; deeply cut and have rigid spines (hence the species name) at the lobe tips.
Other: Thorns
Tolerate: Rabbit, Tolerates all but poorly drained soils
