Fetterbush

Difficult to transplant. Clonal.



May be used as a hedge and takes to pruning.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Apparently toxic to many mammals

Flatwoods, dome swamp (on hummocks), scrub, scrubby flatwoods. In wetlands typically on hummocks.

• Aroma, fragrance, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Attracts bees.  The following bees were observed visiting flowers of Lyonia lucida at Archbold Biological Station as reported in the Coastal Plain Wiki.
• Apidae: Bombus impatiens
• Halictidae: Lasioglossum placidensis