Description
Buddleja knappii | Knapp’s Butterfly Bush
Knapp’s Butterfly Bush is a multi-stemmed bushy evergreen shrub native to South Africa.
From a distance, Buddleia knappii looks similar to Buddleja loricata. However, it is larger in scale, with willow-like foliage that’s more than two times as long and with round orange eyes on the flowers, rather than square orange eyes. The sweetly-scented creamy white flowers bloom in terminal clusters surprisingly late in the summer and persist for quite some time, attracting a variety of pollinators to the garden. The young have fine, silvery hairs over their textured, leathery surface and as they mature, they turn a darker green. The leaf reverses are startlingly white with woolly hairs. The evergreen foliage makes it useful in the garden year-round.
The seed capsule is small and covered with fine, creamy-grey hairs that form dense woolly heads, which eventually split open to release very fine seeds. Buddleja knappii grows on dry or moist hillsides, among rocks or sheltered places on slopes, mountains and sometimes on stream banks at fairly high altitudes.
If any pruning is to be done, it should occur shortly after flowering because flowers will bloom on last years wood.
Deer resistant. Drought adapted and cold hardy.
Type: Perennial
Sun exposure: Full sun to part shade
Mature height: 6 ft
Mature width: 10 ft
Hardiness zones: 7-9
The rooted plant you will receive will be 4-16 inches tall.
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