Virginia Waterleaf
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Pink, purple and white flowers from April into July, worked by red-belted bumble bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 17 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and white, Apr to Jul
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Bees
- 7 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Red-belted bumble bee (Bombus rufocinctus), Mining bee (Andrena geranii), Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae), Mining bee (Andrena nigrihirta)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Robin's-plantain
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
White Wood-aster
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Calico Aster
Wild GeraniumFacts from the Quercus record for Hydrophyllum virginianum.