Eastern Redbud
Cercis canadensis
Pink, purple and red flowers from March into May, worked by unequal cellophane bees and southeastern blueberry bees. It grows wild in 46 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 25 ft to 30 ft tall, 30 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and red, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 24 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seedbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 30 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 14 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis), Southeastern blueberry bee (Habropoda laboriosa), Mason bee (Osmia cornifrons), Mason bee (Osmia ribifloris)
Grows well with
Sweetbay Magnolia
American Witch-hazel
Sourwood
Common Waxmyrtle
American Wisteria
Allegheny Serviceberry
Common Pawpaw
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Facts from the Quercus record for Cercis canadensis.