Plant: Sugartina® 'Crystalina' Summersweet
Clethra · Clethra alnifolia 'Crystalina'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf selection of the native summersweet, mounded and dense at about 2.5 to 3 feet tall and wide, that holds its tight shape without pruning. Very fragrant pure white flowers rise in narrow cylindrical racemes from mid summer into fall and draw butterflies, bees and hummingbirds, and the dark glossy foliage turns yellow in fall. It grows in morning sun or dappled shade on moist, acid, organic soil, tolerates wet ground and salt, resists deer, and suits a rain garden, a woodland edge, a border or a container.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A dwarf selection of the native summersweet, mounded and dense at about 2.5 to 3 feet tall and wide, that holds its tight shape without pruning. Very fragrant pure white flowers rise in narrow cylindrical racemes from mid summer into fall and draw butterflies, bees and hummingbirds, and the dark glossy foliage turns yellow in fall. It grows in morning sun or dappled shade on moist, acid, organic soil, tolerates wet ground and salt, resists deer, and suits a rain garden, a woodland edge, a border or a container.
- Flowers
- Very fragrant pure white flowers are carried in dense narrow cylindrical racemes from mid summer through fall.
- Fruit
- Brown capsules ripen in fall and persist through winter, attracting birds.
- Light
- Morning Sun, Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Eastern North America, from Maine south to Florida and west to Texas
