Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Buddleja davidii
Common name
Buddleja, Butterfly Bush, Buddleia
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Woodland, forestry plantations, old gardens, disturbed sites, and moist areas, and near streams. Mainly ACT and near the Great Western Highway east of Bathurst. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 5 m high. Branches 4-angled and white or greyish hairy when young, becoming rounded and hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 4–20 cm long, 10–80 mm wide, margins scalloped or with minute teeth; upper surface dark green and mostly hairless, lower surface white-hairy. Flowers sweetly scented, white or mauve to purple, throat orange-yellow. Flowers 8–14 mm long, tubular, with 4-5 lobes. Flower clusters 12–30 cm long. Flowers spring-summer.
Family was Buddlejaceae.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Buddleja~davidii (accessed 1 April, 2021)
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