Black Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
White flowers from May into August. It grows wild in 51 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 5.5 ft to 7 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, May to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 3 kinds of native bees
Grows well with
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Flame Azalea
Heartleaf Aster
White Wood-aster
False Solomon's-seal
Fringed Sedge
Cardinal-flower
Wild Blue PhloxFacts from the Quercus record for Actaea racemosa.