Dwarf Azalea
Rhododendron atlanticum
It grows wild in 36 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 6 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 62 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 24 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 5 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimaculatus), Confusing bumble bee (Bombus perplexus), Mining bee (Andrena cornelli), Mining bee (Andrena vicina)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Coastal Plain Joe-pye-weed
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Fragrant Sumac
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Facts from the Quercus record for Rhododendron atlanticum.