Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus)
Full Sun
Low Water Needs
Size: 5-20 ft tall x 15 ft wide
Bloom Time: Late Summer to Fall
Buttonwood is a classic addition to a Florida coastal garden. Its soft silvery foliage makes for a striking shrub or small compact tree. It is very salt tolerant and grows in hot, sunny, and poor soils. In the late summer to early fall, buttonwood produces button-like blooms that turn reddish brown with age. Provides good cover and food for wildlife. Only prune in the spring to ensure you will get the late summer blooms. As a bonus, it is the nectar source and larval host plant for martial scrub hairstreak butterfly and tantalus sphinx moth, both of which are found in southern Florida.
https://www.fnps.org/plants/plant/conocarpus-erectus
http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2807
Low Water Needs
Size: 5-20 ft tall x 15 ft wide
Bloom Time: Late Summer to Fall
Buttonwood is a classic addition to a Florida coastal garden. Its soft silvery foliage makes for a striking shrub or small compact tree. It is very salt tolerant and grows in hot, sunny, and poor soils. In the late summer to early fall, buttonwood produces button-like blooms that turn reddish brown with age. Provides good cover and food for wildlife. Only prune in the spring to ensure you will get the late summer blooms. As a bonus, it is the nectar source and larval host plant for martial scrub hairstreak butterfly and tantalus sphinx moth, both of which are found in southern Florida.
https://www.fnps.org/plants/plant/conocarpus-erectus
http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2807
