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Cephalanthus occidentalis
Shrub with very dark gray or black bark. It has shiny dark-green spear-or egg-shaped pointed leaves 3 to 6 inches long. The leaves are opposite or whorled in 3′s or 4′s along the stem. Flowers of buttonbush are easily identified by their greenish-white tube flowers in dense ball-shaped clusters about 1 inch in diameter. Seed heads are brown and split in half to reveal small seeds. It usually blooms between May and September but these were found in late March.
Grows along banks of streams, lakes, sinkhole ponds, wetland prairies, and bay swamps.
Florida native plant that attracts bees and butterflies.
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