Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush and across Asia various parts

and across Asia various parts have been reached for against fever

The showy bracts open white and often blush pink as they age

For anyone in the Middle Atlantic who has watched a gardenia die to the ground every hard winter

and holds a compact shape once established

usually prostrate mat

Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush and across Asia various partsThis one is named for a doctor and a place. The epithet gardenii honors Alexander Garden, the Scottish physician who settled in Charleston in 1752 and was first to find this shrub, describe the species, and send a plant across to England, the same Garden the gardenia is named for, though this Carolina native may be the truer monument. (The genus belongs to his English correspondent Dr. John Fothergill, in whose garden the shrub later grew; the species