Downy Phlox
Phlox pilosa
Pink, purple and white flowers from May into July, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 9 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and white, May to Jul
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
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
Robin's-plantain
New Jersey Tea
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Bluestem Goldenrod
Wild Geranium
Small's Ragwort
Black Huckleberry
Sweet GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox pilosa.