Silver Buttonwood
Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus
Silver Buttonwood is a unique coastal native shrub or small tree that can reach 20' and has soft silvery leaves and small brown berries that look like wood buttons. While it thrives in coastal landscapes, taking salt inundation and salty soils like a champ, it can be planted inland as well. The Silver Buttonwood can be used as a specimen tree, part of a natural privacy screen or pruned into a low hedge.
Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus
Silver Buttonwood is a unique coastal native shrub or small tree that can reach 20' and has soft silvery leaves and small brown berries that look like wood buttons. While it thrives in coastal landscapes, taking salt inundation and salty soils like a champ, it can be planted inland as well. The Silver Buttonwood can be used as a specimen tree, part of a natural privacy screen or pruned into a low hedge.
Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus
Silver Buttonwood is a unique coastal native shrub or small tree that can reach 20' and has soft silvery leaves and small brown berries that look like wood buttons. While it thrives in coastal landscapes, taking salt inundation and salty soils like a champ, it can be planted inland as well. The Silver Buttonwood can be used as a specimen tree, part of a natural privacy screen or pruned into a low hedge.
Native, evergreen shrub; 20’
Full sun; moist to dry coastal sandy soils
Salt and drought tolerant!
Inconspicuous flowers attract numerous pollinators; berries look like wooden buttons
Great for beach and dune plantings
Host for the Martial Scrub-Hairstreak and Tantalus Sphinx moth
