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30 lip 2024 · Virginia sweetspire is a deciduous shrub with arching stems and dark green, oval-shaped leaves. The shrub grows rounded and produces bottlebrush-looking, droopy, white floral sprays from late spring to mid-summer. In autumn, the leaves turn red, orange, and gold shades.
Itea (Virginia Sweetspire) is a durable native shrub that grows well in either sun or shade and tolerates drought as well as flooding rains. It thrives in almost any soil type, including clay, and is hardy in all but the coldest climates.
Virginia sweetspire is a 3 to 5 feet high and wide, rounded shrub that may form thickets, especially in moist areas. Native to the Southeastern United States where it is found in swamps, wet woodlands, and along streambanks. The young stems are slender, greenish to reddish, with small tan lenticels.
Virginia Sweetspire is a native deciduous to a semi-evergreen shrub that is found in the southeast USA on streambanks and wet pine barrens. It is found in most areas of NC. It can grow up to 8 feet tall and has graceful arching branches.
Award-winning Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' (Virginia Sweetspire) is a compact, rounded, deciduous shrub with arching branches boasting bottlebrush spikes, 4-6 in. long (10-15 cm), of lightly fragrant, creamy-white flowers in mid-spring to early summer.
Fragrant, showy four-inch spires of white blossoms fall from arching stems in late spring. In autumn, the leaves of Virginia Sweetspire turn a vibrant red to orange. This native favorite has graceful open growth habit and performs best in partial shade with moist soil.
This colorful deciduous shrub, Virginia sweetspire or Virginia-willow (Itea virginica), combines beauty with functionality and durability. Fragrant, white flowers adorn this shrub in late spring, and its leaves turn brilliant bronze and red in the fall.
