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Distribution:  Virginia to Florida.

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Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 4-9       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   6-9 ft. tall, with a similar spread.

Form:   Deciduous shrub. Dense, bushy, rounded shrub of regular outline.

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Stem/Bud:   Stems are aromatic when bruised, with distinctly raised, horseshoe-shaped leaf scars and prominent lenticels.

Leaves:   Leaves are opposite, simple, entire, ovate to elliptic with an acute or acuminate tip, 2-5 inches long, fragrant when crushed, grayish-green and densely pubescent beneath.

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Flower:   Flowers are reddish-brown, 2 inches across, very fragrant, borne singly and axillary in mid-May and sporadically through June and July.

Fruit:   Fruit consists of an urn-shaped receptacle, somewhat capsule-like, enclosing many one-seeded achenes, brown in color. Fruit with poisonous seeds.

Uses:   Specimen, border, foundation. Wet sites.

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Notes:    Grows best in moist loamy soil, but adaptible to many soils, both acid and alkaline. Very resistant to insect and disease problems. Prune after flowering; flowers on current seasons growth and on wood of previous year.

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