Common Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Pink and white flowers in July, worked by mining bees. It grows wild in 19 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 6.5 ft to 8 ft tall, 5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, July
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 27 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 2 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena crataegi), Mining bee (Andrena perplexa), Mining bee (Andrena hippotes), Mining bee (Andrena carlini)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Inkberry
Pink Azalea
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Swamp Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Facts from the Quercus record for Physocarpus opulifolius.