| Scientific Name: | Physostegia virginiana |
| Common Name: | obedient plant, false dragonhead |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Spatulate, Double serrate |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems square in c.s.; leaves narrow-lanceolate, sharply-toothed, up to 12cm long; flowers snapdragon-like (tubular, two-lipped), pink to pale lilac in upright terminal spikes up to 40cm long, Jul-Nov. | |