95+ Mountain Fetterbush

With small white bell shaped flowers called also mountain andromeda. Mountain doghobble is a 3 to 6 feet tall evergreen shrub with sharply toothed leaves on arching stems.

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Mountain fetterbush!!!

Mountain fetterbush is known only from vermont in new england where it occurs far north of its native range in the mid atlantic and southeastern u s. Pieris floribunda mountain fetterbush is a bushy shrub up to 6 feet 1 8 m tall with oval shiny leathery leaves which are normally. Mountain fetterbush has a fairly small range primarily in the southern appalachians. Mountain fetterbush eubotrys recurva plantae magnoliophyta magnoliopsida ericales ericaceae eubotrys recurva buckley britton this southern appalachian endemic is common at higher elevations in the mountains of north carolina and rare in the western piedmont.

From late april into june bell shaped white flowers that are almost fluorescent appear in the leaf axils where the leaf joins the stem usually towards the tips of the branches. Mountain fetterbush definition is an ornamental evergreen shrub pieris floribunda of the southeastern u s. If you start growing fetterbush you ll fall for the drooping urn shaped flowers that can last all spring long and into summer. Posted by ilparw southeast pennsylvania zone 6b on apr 21 2019 5 10 pm.

Several species including mountain fetterbush or mountain andromeda pieris floribunda and japanese pieris or japanese andromeda p. A beautiful specimen shrub for part to full shade in moist acidic soil. Mountain fetterbush pieris floribunda. I just ran across this new species to me today on an easter walk at jenkins arboretum in southeast pennsylvania in mid april 2019.

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