Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Blue and purple flowers from April into June, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 28 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 10 in to 1 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and purple, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 5 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae)
Grows well with
False Solomon's-seal
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Christmas Fern
Virginia Spring-beauty
Great Blue Lobelia
Northern Maidenhair Fern
Indian Pink
Coastal Doghobble
Facts from the Quercus record for Phlox divaricata.