24+ Fetterbush

It thrives in the sandy acidic soil of the coastal plain. Fetterbush also known as drooping leucothoe is an attractive flowering evergreen shrub that is hardy depending upon the variety through usda zones 4 to 8.

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Fetterbush

This page is an index of articles on plant species or higher taxonomic groups with the same common name vernacular name. Clusters of pale pink urn shaped inches flowers emerge from leaf axils all along the stems in spring. Scarlet purple new leaves burst from a tidy low compact mound of shiny deep green foliage in spring.

The pinkish flowers are an important source of nectar. Fetterbush is a showy and handsome evergreen shrub found in bogs bays swamps wet woodlands and low pinelands. A beautiful natural woodland companion to rhododendrons and ferns and a superb groundcover.

Its aspect is open and arching while leaves are thick and leathery a lustrous dark green. The bush produces fragrant flowers in the spring and ca sometimes turn beautiful shades of purple and red in the autumn. Fetterbush grows between louisiana and florida and north to virginia.

Fetterbush fetterbush is a common name for several plants in the family ericaceae and may refer to. Glossy bright green leaves to 3 inches long are broadly oval and pointed reminiscent of leucothoe foliage. Open arching suckering shrub to 35 feet high and wide.

The entire shrub becomes reddish bronze in fall. If you start growing fetterbush you ll fall for the drooping urn shaped flowers that can last all spring long and into summer. Fetterbush lyonia lucida is a deciduous shrub native to the southeastern united states.

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