Accession Data

Cephalanthus occidentalis Sugar Shack

Common Name: Buttonbush, Honeybells

Family: Rubiaceae

Country of Origin: E. Canada to C. America, Cuba

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 5-10

Accession #: 201600047

Accession Date: 2016-06-10 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2309

Quantity: 1

Source: Burpees

Provenance:

  • Burpee Item#28501
  • Proven Winners cultivar 'Sugar Shack'

Culture: A wetland plant, this should be kept damp at all times and not allowed to dry out.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Gentianales

Family: Rubiaceae

SubFamily: Cinchonoideae

Tribe: Cephalantheae

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
  3. Cephalanthus occidentalis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
  4. Cephalanthus occidentalis at UConn Plants Database. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
  5. Buttonbush at Ethnobotany of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, University of Texas at Austin. Last accessed on Monday, August 29, 2016.

Images

Cephalanthus occidentalis Sugar Shack