Common name: Buttonbush, Honeybells
Family: Rubiaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: E. Canada to C. America, Cuba
Description:
Uses:
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USDA Zone: 5-10
Source: Burpees
Provenance:
- Burpee Item#28501
- Proven Winners cultivar 'Sugar Shack'
Restrictions:
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
- SubOrder:
- Family: Rubiaceae
- SubFamily: Cinchonoideae
- Tribe: Cephalantheae
- SubTribe:
References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
- Cephalanthus occidentalis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
- Cephalanthus occidentalis at UConn Plants Database. Last accessed on Friday, June 10, 2016.
- Buttonbush at Ethnobotany of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, University of Texas at Austin. Last accessed on Monday, August 29, 2016.
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