The warm, violet pink flowers saturate the plants from spring into early summer. If you deadhead the plants, you will get a second flush of flowers in late summer into fall. The rigidly upright pitchers are green at the base, but change to bright red with white speckling near the hoods. This plant develops into a bushy, full plant and persists for years in the garden. The bright red flowers have a pale yellow to chartreuse throat that offers a sharp contrast.
Flowers appear in the early summer and occur sporadically thereafter.
The basal strap-like foliage is dark green in the summer and marks the spot to watch in the fall. These native plants are no strangers to water as they are found in wet meadows and bogs. The foliage is frequently tinged burgundy along the veins and often turns bronze in the fall. The long narrow foliage of this plant must have scared the devil out of someone to end up with a common name like spiderwort. The plants are attractive clusters of foliage with white flowers with a lavender splash.