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Plant: Hearts A Bustin - Euonymus
Euonymus americanus
$28.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A low-maintenance native shrub of the southeastern and eastern United States, known as strawberry bush for its bumpy red fall capsules that split to show red seeds. Leaves turn red in fall. It adapts to clay, drought and wet soil, takes sun or shade, and suits woodland, native, rain and shade gardens. Deer browse it readily.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A low-maintenance native shrub of the southeastern and eastern United States, known as strawberry bush for its bumpy red fall capsules that split to show red seeds. Leaves turn red in fall. It adapts to clay, drought and wet soil, takes sun or shade, and suits woodland, native, rain and shade gardens. Deer browse it readily.
- Flowers
- Small greenish-yellow to purplish saucer-shaped flowers with 4 to 5 petals, about a third of an inch across, in May and June. Non-showy.
- Foliage
- Opposite elliptical to oblong leaves with finely crenate margins, 1 to 3 inches long, turning red in fall.
- Fruit
- Red, bumpy, 5-lobed capsule that splits open in fall to show red seeds.
- Bark & stems
- Slender, green, square-sided stems that darken with age; buds are reddish-orange and pointed.
- Native range
- Central and eastern United States, in wooded slopes, moist woodlands and creek banks.
