Pink Azalea
Rhododendron periclymenoides
Pink, purple and white flowers from March into May, worked by two-spotted bumble bees and confusing bumble bees. It grows wild in 96 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 7 ft to 10 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and white, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 8 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 63 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 24 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 5 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimaculatus), Confusing bumble bee (Bombus perplexus), Mining bee (Andrena cornelli), Mining bee (Andrena vicina)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Inkberry
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Witherod Viburnum
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf Coneflower
New England Aster
Possumhaw Viburnum
Facts from the Quercus record for Rhododendron periclymenoides.