Ozark Mock Orange
Philadelphus pubescens
Found in limestone bluffs; also naturalizing near ornamental plantings in suburban woodlands. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native status unresolved in Mississippi. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 71%
- Height
- Up to about 20 feet
- Spread
- 4–10 feet
- Light
- Partial shade, Full shade, Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Dry to moist
Space about 7 ft apart from its recorded spread. Enter your bed size for a count
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At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Bloom
- May to June
Not yet recorded · Leaves
County records are not available.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.
Who uses this plant?
4CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS
Genus host records with ranges including MS · Philadelphus
- Cenopis diluticostanaSpring Dead-Leaf Roller Moth, Oak Cenopis
- Euchlaena johnsonariaJohnson's Euchlaena
- Hyalophora cecropiaCecropia Silkmoth, Cecropia Moth
- Metarranthis duariaRuddy Metarranthis
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimPlant details
- Family
- Hydrangeaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 6–9
- Flower color
- White
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “May to June” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “White” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Hardiness · “Zones 6–9” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
- Height · “Up to about 20 feet” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder differs)
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Light · “Partial shade; Full shade; Full sun (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- primary_flower_color · “white” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Soil · “Dry; Moist (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Spread · “4–10 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Also known as
Hairy Mock Orange
Conservation status
| Mississippi rank | SNR |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| MS status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025)
- Mississippi occurrence source
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications