Witherod Viburnum
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides
White flowers from May into June, worked by mining bees. Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 9 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 6.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, May to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Spring Azure
- Caterpillars
- 102 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 17 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 18 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena forbesii), Mining bee (Andrena nasonii), Mining bee (Andrena commoda), Mining bee (Andrena spiraeana)
Grows well with
Pink Azalea
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf Coneflower
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
New England Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides.