Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera) Size:3 Gallon Recommended as a groundcover

Recommended as a groundcover

Large spiny flower heads form at the end of each stem - and along a few side stems near the top

The caterpillars are typically yellow if feeding on the flowers and green if feeding on the leaves

waved sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)

Native to hardwood forests and upland mixed forests from Virginia and Florida west to Arkansas and eastern Texas and south to Guatemala

Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera) Size:3 Gallon Recommended as a groundcoverWax Myrtle (Morella cerifera) is an erect, multi trunked evergreen understory shrub. Found along the Coastal Plain from southern New Jersey to Florida and west along the Gulf Coastal Plain to eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma, Wax Myrtle is an early successional species that is highly adaptable to a range of conditions: it can be found growing in fresh to slightly brackish banks and shores; pine flatwoods; marshes; wet prairies; hammocks; swamps;