Flowering Dogwood
Benthamidia florida
White flowers from March into May. Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 91 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to average soil
- Size
- About 30 ft tall, 22.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Spring Azure
- Caterpillars
- 112 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 15 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 28 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Cream Wild Indigo
Eastern Flowering Spurge
Fringed Bluestar
Facts from the Quercus record for Benthamidia florida.