Fall Phlox
Phlox paniculata
It grows wild in 79 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple, red and white
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- 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
Calico Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
New England Aster
Dwarf Azalea
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox paniculata.