“Butterfly Bush”

Lots of common names for this plant, scientific name “Rotheca myricoides”:
» Butterfly Bush
» Oxford Bush
» Cambridge Bush

and scientific-name synonyms, too:
» Clerodendrum myricoides
» Cyclonema myricoides
» Cyrtostemma myricoides
» Siphonanthus myricoides
» Spironema myricoides

This image has been included in PhytoImages: http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Lamiaceae_Rotheca_myricoides_85736.html

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Rotheca_myricoides&rank=binomial

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“At least it’s not a butterfly?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-07-08
2 years ago (“When you’re bigger than the petals…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-07-08
3 years ago (“Geek Toys IV”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-07-08

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[cheryl]

the flowers are quite lovely. I always thought a "butterfly bush" was named as such because it attracted butterflies.

[Danette Thompson]

Pretty pale blue.

[Rick Schies]

A pretty shot. Our butterfly bush has done well but it has failed to produce butterflies. Well I did see one

[Thom Mitchell]

@cheribug @digitalrn I think it's a late or a "bad" year for butterflies. I am only now beginning to see several species in the middle of the country. For the past week I have been in British Columbia and saw many gardens. For all of the gardens I saw there, you could count on the fingers of one hand how many butterflies I saw. Not species, individual butterflies. So I think this is an unusual year, at least in comparison to 2013 and 2012...

[Mags]

How lovely!