Adina pilulifera Groundcover Shrubs and the flowers keep coming

and the flowers keep coming for months

Among Les Jury's introductions

a somewhat variable plant of the Gulf Coast dunes of northwest Florida and adjacent Alabama

well north of where a tree of this heritage has any right to thrive

aptly named for the candle-shaped buds and luminous color

Adina pilulifera Groundcover Shrubs and the flowers keep comingA medium sized evergreen shrub still little known in cultivation, Adina pilulifera carries small, glossy leaves and, in midsummer, round white flower heads about an inch across, each bristling with protruding styles like a tiny Sputnik. The effect is curious and charming, a pincushion of white set among shining foliage, and the evergreen habit earns the shrub a place where the deciduous buttonbushes leave a winter gap. Native from southern China and