Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Blue and purple flowers from April into June, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 24 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 10 in to 1 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and purple, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 14 in of soil
- 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
White Wood-aster
Heartleaf Aster
False Solomon's-seal
Mapleleaf Viburnum
New York Fern
Fire Pink
Christmas Fern
Large-flowered Bellwort
Facts from the Quercus record for Phlox divaricata.