Snow Wreath

Over 20+ years my 3 original plants have slowly expanded into a drift 35' in width overlooking my creek. During that time exposure change...Read Mored from part sun to dense shade and the plants have remained healthy and vigorous. They are quite attractive in bloom, reminding me somewhat of Fothergilla . Easily controlled and not thuggish nonetheless they have outcompeted everything in their general vicinity except squirrel-planted red buckeyes. I consider this one of the most useful of native plants for naturalizing and have nothing but positive things to say about it. Should be more widely known.

So far until now, I've only seen one plant in a 3 gallon pot being sold by the Delaware Native Plant Society in northern Delaware in Apri...Read Morel of 2014. On page 295 of The Living Landscape by Darke & Tallamy there are two good photos of this pretty shrub, plants in a line about 6 feet high, in white bloom in Rick Darke's southeast Pennsylvania yard that he uses as a deer-proofing shrub barrier and as a woody plant cut flower. The genus was named after Ruben Denton Nevius of Alabama who discovered it for botany there in 1857. In the wild there are just a few small areas and spots in the South were it is surviving as northern Alabama, central Arkansas, southern Tennessee and such. Morton Arboretum in northeast Illinois has some specimens that I'll try to photo later this year or somewhere else.

A beautiful shrub when in flower, much like a white spiraea. Among the first spring-blooming shrubs to bloom here in Boston Z6a. Easy and...Read More adaptable in cultivation.

Rare throughout its native range. Extirpated in MO, threatened in GA, TN, and AR. Present but rare in AL and MS. (BONAP)

smiln32,

I believe your information is incorrect. It is Neviusia cliftonii, Mount Shasta Snow Wreath. Native for clifton...Read Moreii is only the Mount Shasta region of California.

The Neviusia alabamensis was only native as far west as Missouri and Arkansas. I am unable to find any information regarding if it is used by butterflies, hummingbirds, etc. and will be planting mine in the new designated hummerfly section out back. Very interested to see what happens.