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North Carolina
Mapleleaf Viburnum in flower
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Mapleleaf Viburnum

Viburnum acerifolium

Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 51 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.

Light
Full shade to part sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
5 ft to 6 ft tall, 4 ft wide
Flowers
White
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
Kind
Shrub
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Mapleleaf Viburnum, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Butterflies
Host plant for the Spring Azure
Caterpillars
105 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
17 kinds of native bees
Birds
18 kinds of birds
On its flowers
Mining bee (Andrena forbesii), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Mining bee (Andrena commoda), Mining bee (Andrena spiraeana)

Grows well with

Swamp Azalea5 ft tallNew England Aster4 ft tallDwarf Azalea4 ft tallHeartleaf Aster2.5 ft tallNarrowleaf Sunflower6 ft tallCoastal Plain Joe-pye-weed4 ft tallSweet Joe-pye-weed6 ft tallSweet Goldenrod4 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Viburnum acerifolium.