Coastal Sweet-pepperbush
Clethra alnifolia
Pink and white flowers from June into August, worked by sweat bees and leafcutter bees. It grows wild in 7 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 16 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 7 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 11 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Sweat bee (Lasioglossum oblongum), Leafcutter bee (Megachile frigida), Cuckoo bee (Epeolus lectoides)
Grows well with
Inkberry
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Swamp Azalea
Cutleaf ConeflowerFacts from the Quercus record for Clethra alnifolia.