Location: Rain Garden

 Names:

•  Common Name: Common Buttonbush
•  Botanical Name: Cephalanthus occidentalis
•  AKA: Buttonbush, Button Willow, Honey Bells, Honeybells, Honey Balls, Honeyballs

 Description: Common buttonbush is a spreading, multi-branched shrub or sometimes small tree with many branches (often crooked and leaning), irregular crown, balls of white flowers resembling pincushions, and buttonlike balls of fruit. Buttonbush is a handsome ornamental suited to wet soils and is also a honey plant. Ducks and other water birds and shorebirds consume the seeds.

 Best Growing Conditions: Part Shade or Shade; High Water Use; Moist or Wet Soil; Cold Tolerant’ Limestone-based on sandy/clay soil

 Wildlife Value: Nectar-butterflies, Nectar-bees, Nectar-insects, Fruit-birds