Coastal Doghobble
Leucothoe axillaris
Pink and white flowers from March into May. It grows wild in 4 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 15 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
Grows well with
Mapleleaf Viburnum
False Solomon's-seal
Wild Blue Phlox
Fringed Sedge
River Oats
Christmas Fern
Great Blue Lobelia
Cardinal-flower
Facts from the Quercus record for Leucothoe axillaris.