This outstanding selection of the Missouri native Button Bush, Cephelanthus, Crimson Comets is a pollinator magnet and landscape eye candy. Featuring fragrant, white satellite blooms in summer that change into showy, round, red fruit loaded with seeds native songbirds love. Crimson Comets is a must-have for any pollinator landscape! In fall leaves turn crimson red adding a brilliant show to the garden.

A delightful Missouri and Illinois native shrub, Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis, is adored by humans and pollinators for its adorable fragrant white flower balls that appear in summer. Their long flower styles give the blossoms a pincushion look. The flowers mature into attractive pinkish round fruits made up of two-seeded nutlets. These ornamental fruits last throughout the winter. It is desirable to many different Missouri wildlife creatures including butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Ducks and other birds enjoy its tasty seeds. Beavers find its wood delicious and will also use the wood to build their dams and lodges.

Reasons to grow Crimson Comets

• Superb nectar provider for native pollinators
• Native birds love the seed from it fruit
• Outstanding provider of nesting and cover
• Adapts to many soil types, except dry ones
• Thrives in bogs and very wet conditions
• Bright red foliage in fall adds a spectacular show

Plant in full sun to part shade. Buttonbush prefers rich, moist soil. Although tolerant of tough conditions, it suffers in dry, hot spots. Water during the dry days of summer. If plants need to be revitalized, cut back to about 6″ in early spring.