buttonbush
common buttonbush
button-willow
cephalanthus occidentalis latin

Common names include Buttonbush, Common Buttonbush, Button-willow and Honey-bells.

Cephalanthus occidentalis - Button-willow, Common Buttonbush, or Honey-bells (North America)

The type species for Cephalanthus is Cephalanthus occidentalis.

Buttonwillow was named for the buttonbush (Rubiaceae cephalanthus occidentalis), which resembles the willow.

The town of Buttonwillow, California was named for the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis).

Snowshoe hares also use shrub swamps dominated by buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), alders, and silky dogwood (Cornus ammomum).

Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly, being left undisturbed to sucker, a method of propagation he considered better than by seed; a Cephalanthus occidentalis, the largest he had seen, 'liked the situation well enough' and Itea virginica was 'in the greatest vigour'.