New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
It grows wild in 33 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 4 ft wide
- Flowers
- White
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 37 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 46 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Protandrena pauper), Mining bee (Andrena rehni), Masked bee (Hylaeus modestus), Blood bee (Sphecodes minor)
Grows well with
Bluestem Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Robin's-plantain
Heartleaf Aster
Black Huckleberry
Black-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Ceanothus americanus.