Coastal Sweet-pepperbush
Clethra alnifolia
Pink and white flowers from June into August, worked by sweat bees and leafcutter bees. It grows wild in 2 of Tennessee’s 95 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 16 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 9 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 11 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Sweat bee (Lasioglossum oblongum), Leafcutter bee (Megachile frigida), Cuckoo bee (Epeolus lectoides)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Pink Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf ConeflowerFacts from the Quercus record for Clethra alnifolia.