False Solomon's-seal
Maianthemum racemosum
White flowers from April into June, worked by mining bees and cuckoo bees. It grows wild in 27 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 12 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 9 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena krigiana), Mining bee (Andrena nothoscordi), Cuckoo bee (Epeolus pusillus), Mason bee (Osmia conjuncta)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Wild Blue Phlox
Lyreleaf Sage
Christmas Fern
Pennsylvania Sedge
Carolina Phlox
Great Blue Lobelia
New York FernFacts from the Quercus record for Maianthemum racemosum.