Woolly Butterflybush
Buddleja marrubiifolianative · Central Texas
Woolly Butterflybush is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 4–6 ft tall and 6 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms orange in Jun–Nov. Good for butterflies.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 4–6 ft
- Spread
- 6 ft
- Bloom
- Jun–Nov · orange
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on clay, dry, limestone, loam, sand, well drained
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth
- Wildlife
- Supports browsing mammals and butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Trans-PecosChihuahuan Desert
4 occurrence records 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.