Staggerbush

Retain if present. Can be used as part of a screen in a dry site setting.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Slow growing.

Dry-moist sites. Cutthroat seeps, scrub, scrubby flatwoods, scrub.

• Showy flowers
• Attracts bees.  The following Hymenoptera families and species were observed visiting flowers of Lyonia fruticosa at Archbold Biological Station as reported by Coastal Plain Plants Wiki.
• Apidae: Bombus impatiens
• Colletidae: Colletes banksi, C. distinctus, C. productus, C. sp. A
• Halictidae: Augochloropsis sumptuosa
• Sphecidae: Stictia carolina
• Vespidae: Monobia quadridens