Sugar Shack® Button Bush

Categories: Plants, Shrubs, Small Shrubs (Deciduous)

Sugar Shack® Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis ‘SMCOSS’)An interesting native shrub with most unusual flowers, hundreds of tiny tubular flowers packed into a ball; a great conversation piece when in bloom; fruit persists into winter and add interest; an excellent choice for very wet sites

Characteristics

Average Landscape Height:

4 feet

Average Landscape Width:

4 feet

Growth Rate:

fast

Genus:

Cephalanthus

Species:

occidentalis

Cultivar:

SMCOSS

Flower Color:

cream

Flower Period:

from early to late summer

Summer Foliage Color:

green

Fall Color:

copper

Minimum Light:

partial shade

Maximum Light:

full sun

Minimum Moisture:

moist

Maximum Moisture:

wet

Plant Form:

round

Canopy:

closed

Pruning:

late winter pruning

Pollution Tolerance:

high

Other Species Names:

Button Willow, Honey Bells

Branching:

multi-stemmed

Flower Bud Color:

butter

Flower Form:

ball

Flower Fragrance:

high

Ornamental Features

Sugar Shack® Button Bush features unusual racemes of fragrant creamy white ball-shaped flowers along the branches from early to late summer, which emerge from distinctive buttery yellow flower buds. It has green deciduous foliage. The glossy pointy leaves turn coppery-bronze in fall. The red fruits are held in clusters in mid fall.

Landscape Attributes

Sugar Shack® Button Bush is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Planting & Growing

Sugar Shack® Button Bush will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in moist to wet soil, and will even tolerate some standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selection of a native North American species.

Sugar Shack® Button Bush

Characteristics

Ornamental Features

Landscape Attributes

Planting & Growing

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Ornamental Features

Landscape Attributes

Planting & Growing

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