Common Pawpaw
Asimina triloba
Purple and red flowers from March into May. Zebra Swallowtail caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 32 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 22.5 ft to 30 ft tall, 22.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple and red, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 20 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Zebra Swallowtail
- Caterpillars
- 14 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 3 kinds of native bees
Grows well with
Common Waxmyrtle
Sweetbay Magnolia
American Witch-hazel
Allegheny Serviceberry
Sourwood
Yaupon Holly
Eastern Redbud
FringetreeFacts from the Quercus record for Asimina triloba.