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Georgia
New Jersey Tea in flower
Becky Dill · CC0 · source

New Jersey Tea

Ceanothus americanus

It grows wild in 20 of Georgia’s 159 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 4 ft wide
Flowers
White
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
Kind
Shrub
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

New Jersey Tea, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Caterpillars
37 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
46 kinds of native bees
Birds
2 kinds of birds
On its flowers
Mining bee (Protandrena pauper), Mining bee (Andrena rehni), Masked bee (Hylaeus modestus), Blood bee (Sphecodes minor)

Grows well with

Bluestem Goldenrod2.5 ft tallCalico Aster3 ft tallSmall's Ragwort2.3 ft tallSweet Goldenrod4 ft tallWrinkle-leaf Goldenrod4 ft tallRobin's-plantain1.5 ft tallHeartleaf Aster2.5 ft tallBlack Huckleberry2 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Ceanothus americanus.