Rain Garden & Wet

Pink Turtlehead

Chelone obliqua

perennial — comes back on its own year after year once established.

Curious, hooded rose-pink flowers — each like a little turtle's head — crowd the tops of upright stems from late summer into fall, just when the rain garden needs color most. Clump-forming and uncommon in the trade, and a host plant for the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly.

• Late-season bloom
• Baltimore checkerspot host
• Uncommon in trade