Steeplebush
Spiraea tomentosa
Pink and purple flowers from July into September, worked by mining bees and tri-colored bumble bees.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 4 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and purple, Jul to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
Native to Mississippi.
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 37 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena crataegi), Tri-colored bumble bee (Bombus ternarius), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum cinctipes)
Grows well with
Aromatic Aster
Showy Goldenrod
Common Wild Quinine
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Dense Blazing-star
Rattlesnake-master
ButtonbushFacts from the Quercus record for Spiraea tomentosa.