Mexican Buttonbush
Cephalanthus salicifoliusnative · Central Texas
Mexican Buttonbush is a tree native to Central Texas that grows 8–18 ft tall and 10 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms white and pink in Mar–Aug. Good for bees, birds, butterflies and nectar insects.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 8–18 ft
- Spread
- 10 ft
- Bloom
- Mar–Aug · white, pink
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, loam, moist, poor drainage
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, birds, butterflies and nectar insects
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.