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Indian pink, an easy-to-grow and often underappreciated wildflower native to the southeastern United States, deserves a place in more shaded yards. Gardeners love it for its predictable show of flowers in late spring every year. The colorful trumpet-shaped blossoms are yellow inside and red outside.
Indian Pink is quietly spectacular, growing in naturally open wood edges and along streams. This perennial is easy to grow and is rated as a “Top 10 Hummingbird Plant.” Foliage is glossy green all season.
Indian Pink blooms in the spring through to early summer. In the south, this is normally around March-June. In the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, you’ll see flowers from April to early July. Indian Pink is known for its long bloom time—few native flowers stay out as long.
Spigelia marilandica, the woodland pinkroot or Indian pink is a herbacious perennial wildflower in the Loganiaceae family native to inland areas of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. It flowers in late spring and early summer and tends to be found in low moist woods, ravines, or stream banks in partial or full shade.
A charming woodland plant, Spigelia marilandica (Indian Pink) is a clump-forming perennial with glossy green, broadly lance-shaped leaves borne on stiff erect stems. In early summer, clusters of upward facing, trumpet-shaped, deep-red to scarlet flowers, 2 in. long (5 cm), are on display.
Indian pink is a clump-forming perennial that reaches mature heights of 12 to 18 inches (31-46 cm.). The emerald-green foliage provides delightful contrast to the vivid red flowers, which appear in late spring and early summer.
Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica, Zones 5–9), also called pinkroot, blooms all across the Southern Plains in late spring and early summer. Perhaps one of our showiest native perennials, Indian pink produces scores of vivid red and yellow blooms in late spring right after the ephemerals have finished blooming.
