Carolina Phlox
Phlox carolina
It grows wild in 26 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to wet soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.8 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 8 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 6 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena erigeniae)
Grows well with
Heartleaf Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Black Huckleberry
Black-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox carolina.