Piedmont Staggerbush

Lyonia mariana
Español: Higuerilla
Has larger flowers than most lyonias.



Can be used as a specimen shrub or in a screen.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Considertions

Slow growing.

Habitat

Edges of flatwoods marshes, cypress-hardwood pond margins, bogs, shrub-tree swamps, hydric and low mesic flatwoods, occasionally in well-drained mixed woodlands and sandhill, creek swamps.

Did You Know?

  • Fall color, Showy flowers
  • Attracts bees.