Moss Phlox
Phlox subulata
Blue, pink, purple, red and white flowers from March 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
- 5 in to 6 in tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple, red and white, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 8 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
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
Heartleaf Aster
Bird's-foot Violet
Wild Strawberry
Hairy Beard Tongue
Robin's-plantain
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Narrowleaf SundropsFacts from the Quercus record for Phlox subulata.