Does anybody know what this is? Loves the shady garden in Zone 11!!! Thanks
mojavegardener
Growing in Sunset Zone 11, Mojave Desert in partial shade
http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/plantid/all/
It looks like a Buddleia or Butterfly Bush, maybe. You should try posting it on the ID forum, that's a link up top
I thought so at first also, but leaves are very different than the 40 butterfly bushes I have out here. Thanks!!
Looks like Buddleja x weyeriana to me. Most of the common butterfly bushes are B. davidii which is probably why the leaves on this one look different than the other butterfly bushes you have. It is absolutely, positively a Buddleia--there are a couple other species that have yellow flowers, x weyeriana is by far the most common which is why I suspect that's it. Here's a pic of the 'Honeycomb' cultivar--there are a couple other cultivars as well but this is the one that has a pic in PF. My experience is that the flower clusters don't always look as perfectly round as some of the ones in some of these pictures
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/51666/index.html
Thank you very much. The rest of my "butterfly bushes" are out on the cattle fence, dwarfed by cold winds off the Sierras to the west, and the typical purple and lavendar types. This beautiful bush loves my inside yard. Thanks again for your identification, it really looks just like the pictures you directed me to see.
mojavegardener
Glad I could help! But you should actually thank claypa, I don't usually watch this forum but he dmailed me because he thought I would know what it was!