Virginia Sweetspire
Itea virginica
White flowers from April into June, worked by cellophane bees and long-horned bees. It grows wild in 22 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- 6 ft to 8 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 10 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Cellophane bee (Colletes thoracicus), Long-horned bee (Eucera fulvohirta)
Grows well with
Red Chokeberry
Common Sneezeweed
Fringed Sedge
Bladder Sedge
Carolina Phlox
Lyreleaf Sage
Virginia Iris
Sweet WoodreedFacts from the Quercus record for Itea virginica.