What is this

j-bird

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Found this yesterday in a shaded flood plain on my place yesterday and was curious as to what it is. It is shrub size.IMG_0016.jpg
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Looks like a buttonbush to me. Great pollinator and duck plant. Likes wet areas as well.
 
If it is button bush how do I best help it spread? I don’t have much of it and I have been trying to expand my diversity of shuns for the past few years.


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Looks like button bush to me also. Easy to spread. get some rooting hormone and take cuttings in the spring. poke them in the hormone then poke them in the ground.
I started a shrub screen before I moved to miscanthus. I used a variety of shrubs including button bush. The button bush is still thriving. I'm almost worried it may shade out my grass someday.

I've mowed it, disked it, sprayed it with gly, liberty and atrazine and those things are still growing...
 
I'll have to take some pics of them next time out.
 
Its button bush Common in my creek bottoms/flood plains

Easy to spread as stated

I notice that MDC carries it

bill
 
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