Oakleaf Hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia
White, pink and purple flowers from May into July, worked by sweat bees and blood bees. It grows wild in 11 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 6 ft to 8 ft tall, 7 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, pink and purple, May to Jul
- 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
- 9 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 17 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Sweat bee (Lasioglossum coeruleum), Blood bee (Sphecodes mandibularis), Mining bee (Andrena frigida), Leafcutter bee (Megachile apicalis)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Inkberry
Pink Azalea
Swamp Azalea
New England Aster
Dwarf AzaleaFacts from the Quercus record for Hydrangea quercifolia.