False Solomon's-seal
Maianthemum racemosum
White flowers from April into June, worked by mining bees and cuckoo bees. It grows wild in 74 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 12 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 9 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena krigiana), Mining bee (Andrena nothoscordi), Cuckoo bee (Epeolus pusillus), Mason bee (Osmia conjuncta)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
White Wood-aster
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Wild Blue Phlox
Lyreleaf Sage
Pennsylvania Sedge
Carolina Phlox
Canada HorsebalmFacts from the Quercus record for Maianthemum racemosum.