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Clerodendrum ugandense, also called Rotheca myricoides, and commonly known as Blue Butterfly Bush, is a wonderful plant to have at home. It’s not a fussy, high requirement plant, and it’s very rewarding to have.
Rotheca myricoides ‘Ugandense’, or Blue butterfly bush, is a low maintenance, suckering, evergreen shrub in the Lamiaceae family that is native to tropical eastern Africa (Kenya and Uganda). As its common name implies, the plant displays violet-blue flowers that resemble a butterfly in flight.
Blue Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum Ugandense) is a tropical evergreen shrub with blue-white corolla, blue-purple labellum and completely flat petals. Cup-shaped calyx 5 lobed, lobes round, greenish purple, there are 4 slender straight forward curved filaments, purple or white, very unique.
It blooms non-stop from early summer through frost with true-blue flowers, each with a tiny yellow-orange eye in the center. Thanks to thick, sturdy stems, the Pugster® series offers vastly improved hardiness and winter survival over other types of dwarf butterfly bush.
Grow your own bush of non-stop butterflies! It’s simple with this quick-to-establish, low-maintenance shrub. Easily reaching 4-5’ tall and wide in its first year and displaying a nice multi-branching form with pretty, glossy, oblong leaves, it’s LOADED with blooms from late Spring to late Fall.
In warmer climates, butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii) is a deciduous shrub with an arching habit and impressive flowers. In colder regions, it grows more like a perennial, dying back to the root crown each winter and reappearing in spring.
Rotheca myricoides, commonly called blue glory bower or blue butterfly bush, is a suckering evergreen shrub with a somewhat open habit which grows rapidly to 6-10' tall and as wide in its native habitat but more typically to 2-4’ tall in containers in the St. Louis area.
Meet Pugster Blue, the butterfly bush that's changing the game in compact plants. It's just 2 feet tall and wide, but it blooms with big, bright blue flowers from early summer to frost. These flowers even have a cute yellow-orange center.
Pugster Blue® Dwarf Butterfly Bush. Large, dense, fragrant, delightful blue flower panicles on a tidy, compact plant. Provides continuous summer color well into fall. A prolific bloomer without deadheading - perfect carefree summer blooming specimen for warm, sunny, small gardens and containers.
Butterfly bush is hard to beat for sheer flower power. These easy, sun-loving shrubs come in an array of rich colors, bloom continuously from summer to fall, and attract butterflies and hummingbirds by the score. Updated: March 18, 2021.