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Rubiaceae
Common buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Also known as Button willow, Cephalanthus occidentalis var. obtusifolius, Cephalanthus pubescens, Cephalanthus oppositifolius
Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Native Shrub · Wetland · Rain Garden · Pollinator · Deciduous · Pond Edge · Wildlife Habitat · Rubiaceae · White Flowers · Water-Tolerant
Common buttonbush is a native deciduous shrub ideal for rain gardens, pond edges, and wet areas where few other plants thrive. It produces distinctive spherical white flowers in summer that are magnets for pollinators and birds. Plant in moist to wet soil with part shade to full sun and minimal care is needed once established.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply and consistently; tolerates and prefers consistently moist to wet soil · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 60 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, California, Connecticut, Cuba, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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