Creeping Phlox
Phlox stolonifera
Blue, pink, purple and white flowers from April into May, worked by eastern carpenter bees and mining bees. It grows wild in 14 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 10 in to 1 ft tall, 1.1 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple and white, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
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
Robin's-plantain
Bluestem Goldenrod
Bird's-foot Violet
Hairy Beard Tongue
New Jersey Tea
Pennsylvania Sedge
Wild StrawberryFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox stolonifera.