RUSTY LYONIA

Lyonia ferruginea

6 to 12 feet

Slow rate of growth

Full sun to partial shade

Low salt tolerance

Adapts to moist and rich or dry soil; smaller size in dry, sandy soil.

Cold hardy; zones 8 to 10

Irregularly-branched shrub with evergreen, leaves with rusty undersurface.

New growth is rusty and very attractive;

numerous white to pink, faintly fragrant, urn-shaped flowers in spring.

Somewhat colonial by underground stems.