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Buddleja davidii (spelling variant Buddleia davidii), also called summer lilac, butterfly-bush, or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan. [1] It is widely used as an ornamental plant, and many named varieties are in cultivation.
Buddleja (/ ˈ b ʌ d l i ə /; orth. var. Buddleia; also historically given as Buddlea) is a genus comprising over 140 [3] species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector , at the suggestion ...
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Buddleja diffusa is a dioecious, scrambling, vine-like shrub 1–3.5 m high, with yellowish bark. The young branches are quadrangular, the younger growth covered with a white to buff tomentum. The sessile, membranaceous ovate or elliptic leaves 3–14 cm long by 2–8 cm wide, glabrescent above, tomentose below.
Buddleja davidii var. alba is endemic to central and western China. [1] The plant has also been treated as a form, and a cultivar ('Alba'). [2] However, Anthonius Leeuwenberg sank var. alba and the other five varieties of davidii as synonyms, [3] considering them to be within the natural variation of a species, a treatment also adopted in the Flora of China published in 1996.
Buddleja fallowiana var. alba Sabourin is a white-flowered variety of B. fallowiana endemic to Yunnan in western China, where it grows in open woodland, along forest edges and watercourses. The shrub was considered superior to the lavender-blue flowered B. fallowiana by Bean , who thought it one of the most attractive of all buddlejas.
Buddleja americana var. rothschulii Loes. Buddleja americana is the most widespread of all the Buddleja species native to the Americas, its range extending south from Tamaulipas , Mexico , through Central America and much of the West Indies into South America , reaching eastward to Venezuela , westward as far as the Galapagos , and south to ...
Buddleja officinalis is a deciduous early-spring flowering shrub native to west Hubei, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China. [1] Discovered in 1875 by Pavel Piasetski, [ 2 ] a surgeon in the Russian army, B. officinalis was named and described by Maximowicz in 1880.