Description: A small patch of white splashes the center of these small, bluish-purple, tubular, two-lipped flowers. Several flowers adorn each short spike, the stems having smallish, elliptical, opposite leaves just below the flowers. Attractive to butterflies.

Lifespan: Perennial

Light exposure: Full sun to high pine shade

Bloom color: Bluish-purple

Bloom season: Mid-spring to mid-fall

Height (in bloom): 1 to 2 feet

Habitat: Dry to moist pine flatwoods, sandhills, moist hammocks and disturbed areas

Each packet covers 10 square feet.

Read the Florida Wildflower Foundation's profile of Helmet skullcap.
View or download the Skullcap page from the Foundation's 20 Easy-to-Grow Wildflowers publication.