Southern Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
White flowers from March into April, worked by mining bees. Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 5 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 8 ft to 10 ft tall, 8 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to Apr
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Spring Azure
- Caterpillars
- 98 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 17 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 18 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena forbesii), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Mining bee (Andrena commoda), Mining bee (Andrena spiraeana)
Grows well with
Showy Goldenrod
Common Wild Quinine
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Orange Coneflower
Rattlesnake-master
Dense Blazing-star
Little BluestemFacts from the Quercus record for Viburnum dentatum.