bogbean
Menyanthes trifoliata
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Habit
- Herb
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Bloom color
- White
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) is a perennial for pollinator gardens and low maintenance planting. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full sun to part shade and moist to wet, loamy or clay soil. Star-like white flowers rise on stout stalks above shiny leaves with three oval leaflets. Bees visit the blooms in spring and summer.
Pairs well with Broadleaf arrowhead, Cranberry, and Culver’s root.
Native range
North America, Europe, Central Asia, Asia, and 26 more places. See all 30
North America, Europe, Central Asia, Asia, Africa, Arctic, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Corse, Føroyar, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., New Hampshire, New Jersey, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Türkiye, and Yakutiya.