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(4” pot) Ceanothus americanus - 3-4’ tall. New Jersey tea was a name coined during the American Revolution because its leaves were used as a substitute for imported tea. Native to North America, it’s also called mountain sweet and wild snowball. New Jersey tea is a compact, deciduous, nitrogen-fixing shrub with grey-green leaves and clusters of tiny, fragrant, white flowers that bloom in spring. Flowers produce dark brown seed capsules that split, ejecting their seeds several feet. Plants have thick, deep taproots and are best left undisturbed once established. It tolerates drought, dry soil and shallow-rocky soil. It attracts songbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies, and native bees, and is a larval host to spring azure, summer azure, and mottled duskywing butterflies. Zone 4
(4” pot) Ceanothus americanus - 3-4’ tall. New Jersey tea was a name coined during the American Revolution because its leaves were used as a substitute for imported tea. Native to North America, it’s also called mountain sweet and wild snowball. New Jersey tea is a compact, deciduous, nitrogen-fixing shrub with grey-green leaves and clusters of tiny, fragrant, white flowers that bloom in spring. Flowers produce dark brown seed capsules that split, ejecting their seeds several feet. Plants have thick, deep taproots and are best left undisturbed once established. It tolerates drought, dry soil and shallow-rocky soil. It attracts songbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies, and native bees, and is a larval host to spring azure, summer azure, and mottled duskywing butterflies. Zone 4