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Rubiaceae
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Wetland life.
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Genus
- Cephalanthus
- Native to
- Eastern and southern North America
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Type
- shrub
- Height
- 5-12 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- wet to moist
- Water
- high
- Hardiness
- 5-10
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- The spherical white flower clusters look like fuzzy golf balls bristling with stamens.
- It thrives in standing water — one of the few woody shrubs that grows in flooded soils.
- Each flower head produces over a hundred tiny tubular blooms that bees, butterflies, and moths flock to.
- Wood ducks use its dense branches for cover, and waterfowl eat the seed nutlets.
- Native peoples brewed bark teas as a fever remedy and called it 'fever bush.'
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