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Common Wild Quinine in flower — aarongunnar · CC BY 4.0 · source

Common Wild Quinine

Parthenium integrifolium

It grows wild in 45 of Virginia’s 133 counties.

Light: Full sun
Soil: Dry to moist soil
Size: 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers: White
Roots: Roots; reach 6 ft down in open ground
Kind: Wildflower

Add to a bed Plan it in a pot

At its grown size

Common Wild Quinine, drawn in a bed

in flower

What it feeds

Caterpillars: 21 kinds of caterpillars
Bees: 11 kinds of native bees
On its flowers: Sweat bee (Lasioglossum puteulanum), Mining bee (Andrena gardineri), Masked bee (Hylaeus graenicheri), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum coreopsis)

Grows well with

Aromatic Aster2 ft tall

Showy Goldenrod4 ft tall

Steeplebush3 ft tall

Scarlet Beebalm3 ft tall

Eastern Smooth Beardtongue2.5 ft tall

Dense Blazing-star4 ft tall

Southern Arrowwood8 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Parthenium integrifolium.