Buddleja davidii (Butterfly bush)

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Buddleja davidii Franch.

Butterfly bush

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Lamiales	Aromatic herbs and shrubs, including lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, ash, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, mint, basil, and rosemary
Family	Scrophulariaceae	The figwort family (named for the resemblence of root nodes of some species to tubercular human lymph nodes, or scrophula)
Genus	Buddleja	After the Reverend Adam Buddle (1660/1662-1715), an English botanist, this genus was originally in the Logania family, Loganiaceae, but has been placed by Jepson in a family of its own, the Buddlejaceae
Species	davidii	For Armand David, French missionary and explorer in China who first reported the shrub

About plant names...

Butterfly bush is native to the Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and has become a popular ornamental plant in North America. Butterflies find it irresistable. It has become naturalized in North America.

Plants: This shrub can reach 6-13' (1.8-4 m) in height, and can reach 15' (4.6 m) around. It has arching stems.

Leaves: Opposite, lanceolate, gray-green, finely toothed, 2½-8" (7-20 cm) long. Young leaves have fine hairs beneath.

Flowers: Spectacular roughly conical panicles at branch tips are up to 8-18" (20-45 cm) in length, with numerous tiny purple tubular flowers with orange centers. (Other color combinations have been cultivated as well, including lilac, dark purple, pinks, yellows, whites, reds, and almost black.) They appear from June to September.

Fruits: Each flower becomes a 2-valued seed capsule containing about 50 seeds.

Online References:

The Missouri Botanical Garden

Wikipedia

Floridata.com

Www.butterflywebsite.com