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Felty, velvety gray foliage sets off the clusters of tubular. This shrub is deciduous, and it will start shedding its leaves towards the end of autumn. It is also frost hardy and can tolerate temperatures as low as 5☏ (-15☌). This cultivar retains a more compact, mounding shape and is more floriferous than the species ( Clethra alnifolia). Dicliptera suberecta, commonly known as Hummingbird Plant, is a woody perennial from Uruguay. The Hummingbird Bush has a very high tolerance to heat and can thrive in temperatures soaring as high as 95☏ (35☌). 'Hummingbird' is a compact, slowly spreading, deciduous shrub which typically grows only 3-4' tall. Specific epithet means leaves like alder.

Genus name comes from the Greek klethra the name for alder of which the leaves resemble. At Miller Plant Farm, the following are the flowers that we recommend as excellent additions to your hummingbird garden. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies and bees. Hummingbird bush is a colloquial name and may refer to: Anisacanthus quadrifidus, a plant in the family Acanthaceae. Serrate, obovate to oblong, glossy dark green leaves (to 3-4” long) turn variable but generally attractive shades of yellow to golden brown in fall. This is a big bush at maturity, up to 4 feet tall and 5 feet. Mature stems have scaly, dark gray to brown black bark. In the open flowers are fully accessible to the tiny birds, just as they are in the wild.

Flowers give way to dark brown seed capsules (1/8" diameter) which may persist into winter. It is a rounded, suckering, densely-branched, deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3-6’ (less frequently to 8’) tall and is noted for producing a mid to late summer bloom of sweetly fragrant white flowers which appear in narrow, upright panicles (racemes to 2-6" long). Clethra alnifolia, commonly called summersweet, is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands, wet marshes, stream banks and seashores, often in sandy soils, along the coast from Maine to Florida and west to Texas.