Sourwood
Oxydendrum arboreum
It grows wild in 83 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 25 ft to 30 ft tall, 12.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 30 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 16 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 7 kinds of native bees
Grows well with
Eastern Redbud
Common Waxmyrtle
Common Pawpaw
Sweetbay Magnolia
American Witch-hazel
Allegheny Serviceberry
American Wisteria
Yaupon Holly
Facts from the Quercus record for Oxydendrum arboreum.