Steeplebush
Spiraea tomentosa
Pink and purple flowers from July into September, worked by mining bees and tri-colored bumble bees. It grows wild in 8 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 4 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and purple, Jul to Sep
- 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
- 49 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena crataegi), Tri-colored bumble bee (Bombus ternarius), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum cinctipes)
Grows well with
Aromatic Aster
Showy Goldenrod
Common Wild Quinine
Orange Coneflower
Scarlet Beebalm
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Little Bluestem
Dense Blazing-starFacts from the Quercus record for Spiraea tomentosa.