Virginia Spring-beauty
Claytonia virginica
Pink and white flowers from April into June, worked by mining bees and unequal cellophane bees. It grows wild in 20 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 7 in to 9 in tall, 7 in wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Apr to Jun
- Roots
- A bulb or corm
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Bees
- 28 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 13 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis), Mining bee (Andrena carlini)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
Bird's-foot Violet
Wild Strawberry
Robin's-plantain
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Wild Geranium
Facts from the Quercus record for Claytonia virginica.