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 9 of West Virginia’s 55 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
- 57 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
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf Coneflower
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Possumhaw Viburnum
New England Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Facts from the Quercus record for Rhododendron periclymenoides.