Witherod Viburnum
Viburnum cassinoides
White flowers from May into June, worked by mining bees. Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 9 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 6.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, May to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Spring Azure
- Caterpillars
- 93 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
Inkberry
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Pink Azalea
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Cutleaf Coneflower
Swamp Azalea
Common Elderberry
New England AsterFacts from the Quercus record for Viburnum cassinoides.