Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Blue and purple flowers from April into June, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 8 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 10 in to 1 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and purple, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 9 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae)
Grows well with
White Wood-aster
Heartleaf Aster
False Solomon's-seal
New York Fern
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Christmas Fern
Fire Pink
Piedmont Foamflower
Facts from the Quercus record for Phlox divaricata.