Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus)
Full Sun
Low Water Needs
Size: 5-20 ft tall x 15 ft wide
Bloom Time: Late Summer to Fall
I am a great addition to a Florida coastal garden. My soft silvery foliage makes for a striking shrub or small compact tree. I am very salt tolerant and grow in hot, sunny, and poor soils. In the late summer to early fall, I produce button like blooms that turn reddish brown with age. I provide good cover and food for wildlife. If keeping me pruned, only prune in the spring to ensure you will get the late summer blooms. As a bonus, I am the nectar source and larval host plant for martial scrub hairstreak butterfly and tantalus sphinx moth.
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
I am a great addition to a Florida coastal garden. My soft silvery foliage makes for a striking shrub or small compact tree. I am very salt tolerant and grow in hot, sunny, and poor soils. In the late summer to early fall, I produce button like blooms that turn reddish brown with age. I provide good cover and food for wildlife. If keeping me pruned, only prune in the spring to ensure you will get the late summer blooms. As a bonus, I am the nectar source and larval host plant for martial scrub hairstreak butterfly and tantalus sphinx moth.
https://www.fnps.org/plants/plant/conocarpus-erectus
http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2807
