Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant This is a shrub worth

This is a shrub worth growing for eleven months on foliage alone

and forest edges from the Tidewater into the rolling country west of the fall line

Use 'Miss Ruby' in a sunny border

gave rise to the allspice names

The genus name is a Latin rendering of the Japanese aokiba

Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant This is a shrub worthBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors