Creeping Phlox
Phlox stolonifera
Blue, pink, purple and white flowers from April into May, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 7 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 10 in to 1 ft tall, 1.1 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple and white, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 8 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
Heartleaf Aster
Robin's-plantain
Pennsylvania Sedge
Narrowleaf Sundrops
New Jersey Tea
Wild Strawberry
Bird's-foot Violet
Bluestem GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox stolonifera.