Sweet Azalea
Rhododendron arborescens
Sweet azalea is a tall, late-blooming deciduous azalea with intensely fragrant white flowers and showy red stamens, often along mountain streams. Loves cool, moist, acidic ground in part shade.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 8–12 ft
- Spacing
- 8–12 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~51 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, GA, NC, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV