{"id":33851,"date":"2022-12-07T23:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:17","slug":"butterfly-bush-mountain-sage","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/product\/butterfly-bush-mountain-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Bush, Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Buddleja loricata<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>| Popcorn Butterfly Bush<\/p>\n<p><em>Buddleja loricata<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>| Popcorn Butterfly Bush<\/p>\n<p>Popcorn Butterfly Bush, also known as Loricata Butterfly Bush or Mountain Sage Butterfly Bush, is an evergreen shrub native to South Africa and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<div class=\"field-introduction\">\n<p>It grows up to 8 ft in height as either a multi-stemmed, bushy shrub, or a small tree that takes on a rounded canopy. From a distance, <em>Buddleia loricata<\/em> looks similar to <em>Buddleja knappii<\/em>. However, it is smaller in stature, with willow-like foliage that\u2019s half as long and with square orange eyes on the flowers, rather than round orange eyes.\u00a0 Narrow, tapered, dark-green leaves with white downy undersides and small, sweetly-scented, creamy white flowers with square orange\u00a0 centers are held in dense terminal spikes or cymes with hairy stalks and calyx that bloom in summer. Attracts a variety of pollinators to the garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-description\">\n<p>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, dust-like seeds. <em>Buddleja loricata<\/em> grows mostly among rocks or in moist, sheltered places on slopes, mountains and sometimes on stream banks at fairly high altitudes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If any pruning is to be done, it should occur shortly after flowering because flowers will bloom on last years wood.<\/p>\n<p>Deer resistant. Drought adapted and cold hardy.<\/p>\n<p>Type: Perennial<\/p>\n<p>Sun exposure: Full sun to part shade<\/p>\n<p>Mature height: 4-6 ft<\/p>\n<p>Mature width: 4-8 ft<\/p>\n<p>Hardiness zones: 7-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>20 seeds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33855,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2602,4586,4604,4605,2600,4085,4680],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-33851","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all-seeds","product_cat-butterfly-bush-collection","product_cat-deer-resistant","product_cat-evergreen","product_cat-perennial-flower-seeds","product_cat-shrub-seeds","product_cat-xeric","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-before_image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/33851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=33851"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=33851"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=33851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}