Moss Phlox
Phlox subulata
Blue, pink, purple, red and white flowers from March into May, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 1 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 5 in to 6 in tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple, red and white, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 8 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 8 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Wild Strawberry
Bird's-foot Violet
Robin's-plantain
Narrowleaf Sundrops
New Jersey Tea
Wild Geranium
Bluestem GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox subulata.