Leatherwood - Dirca palustris Size:1 Gallon Wildlife Value: Flowers attract butterflies

Wildlife Value: Flowers attract butterflies and native bees

and wet soils

and Royal Walnut Moth

and we believe it single handedly brought the perm back in style

Leatherwood - Dirca palustris Size:1 Gallon Wildlife Value: Flowers attract butterfliesLeatherwood is an unusual and uncommonly encountered woodland plant perfect for the avid plant collector or shade gardener. Drooping yellow flowers hang like tinsel from the stems early in spring before bright green leaves emerge for the season, giving way to clear yellow fall color. Smooth grey brown bark on young twigs gives way to a wrinklier, greyer, older bark on lets call them more mature stems. Slow growing but long lived. The young stems are