Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
White flowers from March into July, worked by brown-belted bumble bees and confusing bumble bees. It grows wild in 62 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- About 15 ft tall, 6 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to Jul
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 25 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 23 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Confusing bumble bee (Bombus perplexus), Yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola), Giant resin bee (Megachile sculpturalis)
Grows well with
Purplehead Sneezeweed
Facts from the Quercus record for Cephalanthus occidentalis.