Buttonbush

Noted for it's round satellite "ball" flowers and round "button" fruits. Fragrant.

Sources disagree on salt tolerance of this plant.



Wetlands and wetland edges as a specimen plant with a pleasing multi-stemmed vase-shape.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Foliage is poisonous to livestock and humans.

Deer browse the foliage. Ducks and other birds including jays, cardinals, nuthatches, titmice, warblers, and mockingbirds consume the seed.

Marshes, swamps, river floodplains

• Aroma, fragrance, Showy flowers, Showy fruits
• Host plant to several moths including titan sphinx (Aellopos titan) and hydrangea sphinx (Darapsa versicolor) moths (https://xerces.org/blog/planting-for-pollinators-button-bush).
• Flowers are very attractive to a variety of insects including butterflies and bees.