5.2 Perennials

ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS
Cleome lutea Hook.
yellow spider plant, golden cleome, yellow bee plant
ann. 0.6 - 1.0 m NP
Value for honey: N sugar concentration 23% (average) als
abundant 20 ; a tenth acre plot encouraged later brood rear
compared to other colonies without this source 72 ; in some
P 67 ; may have been principal host for alkali bee before suc
clover were introduced 67.
Value for pollen: a good source of P 72 ; P supplied in the m
Honey: dark and strong 79 .
Notes: considered weedy.
Cleome serrulata Pursh
(syn. Cleome integrifolia (Nutt.) Ton. & A. Gray)
bee spider flower, Rocky Mountain bee plant, stinking clove
ann. Jul-Sep 0.6-1.0 m NP
Value for honey: yield of 46 kg/colony/season reported (a
surplus per colony in 3 weeks 5° ; N sugar concentration
clover and is probably not preferred to these 90 ; more imp
source of surplus in s. Sask., and coastal B.C. 72 (a beekee
that surplus from this sp. is unlikely in coastal B.C.' ); al
under cool cloudy conditions that stops clover from yielding
than sweet clover 72 ; beekeepers on the Eastern Seaboard
freely sowing seed in waste 1and 79 (early in century).
Value for pollen: bees hover humming-bird fashion while co
Honey: white with greenish tinge 50 ; flavour variable, poor a
age 72 .
Notes: prefers moist soil; unpalatable to livestock 72 ; mino
showy clusters of white flowers on each plant; prairies, d
Man. to Wash. and S. beyond Can. limits 23 .
Convolvulus tricolor L.
dwarf morning glory, heavenly blue, dwarf glorybind, belle d
ann. Jul-Sep 0.2 m NP 36
Value for honey: H yield of 32 kg/colony/season reporte
(Calystegia sepium (L.) R. Br., syn. Convolvulus sepium
bindweed) is a source of wild bindweed (morning glory) H
weed in some areas 3 .
Honey: white and good flavour 72 .
Notes: must remove dead flowers regularly to prolong bloom