Southern Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
White flowers from March into April, worked by mining bees. Spring Azure caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 10 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 8 ft to 10 ft tall, 8 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to Apr
- 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
Showy Goldenrod
Aromatic Aster
Common Wild Quinine
Orange Coneflower
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Dense Blazing-star
Little BluestemFacts from the Quercus record for Viburnum dentatum.