Buddleia lindleyana Open House Native peoples knew the plant

Native peoples knew the plant well

deciduous tree of the ebony family

a deciduous large shrub or small tree

best noticed up close

Ficus pumila

Buddleia lindleyana Open House Native peoples knew the plantBuddleia lindleyana, Lindley's butterfly bush, is the elegant outlier of the genus, an open, arching shrub from China hung in summer with long, slender, gracefully curved racemes of purple violet flowers. Where most butterfly bushes carry stiff cone shaped panicles, this one drapes, the curving spikes nodding from the tips of the branches from June until frost. Tough and fast, Lindley's butterfly bush thrives in full sun or part shade in well drained