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Mississippi
Common Wild Quinine in flower
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Common Wild Quinine

Parthenium integrifolium

It grows wild in 2 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.

Light
Full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
3 ft to 4 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers
White
Roots
Roots; reach 6 ft down in open ground
Kind
Wildflower
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Common Wild Quinine, drawn in a bed

in flower

What it feeds

Caterpillars
22 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
11 kinds of native bees
On its flowers
Sweat bee (Lasioglossum puteulanum), Mining bee (Andrena gardineri), Masked bee (Hylaeus graenicheri), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum coreopsis)

Grows well with

Aromatic Aster2 ft tallShowy Goldenrod4 ft tallEastern Smooth Beardtongue2.5 ft tallSteeplebush3 ft tallDense Blazing-star4 ft tallSouthern Arrowwood8 ft tallRattlesnake-master5 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Parthenium integrifolium.