Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
Pink, purple and white flowers from May into July, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 14 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and white, May to Jul
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
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
Robin's-plantain
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Calico Aster
Wild Geranium
Black Huckleberry
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox pilosa.