Buddleja lindleyana

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Family:SCROPHULARIACEAE
Species:Buddleja lindleyana Fortune
Common Name:Lindley's Butterfly Bush
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Lindley's Butterfly Bush is a deciduous or semi-evergreen introduced shrub in the Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae). It is native to China. In Alabama it can be found around old home sites, in vacant lots, and on roadsides. It was introduced into the United States in the mid 1800’s. Plants grow from 4-9 feet in height with multiple trunks. The bark on older trunks is reddish brown to gray in color. It freely suckers from the roots, and often form large clones. The slender, arching branches are slightly angled. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic in outline, with entire or few toothed margins. The leaves are glabrate above and short stellate pubescent below. The flowers are produced at the ends of the branches in a loosely flowered thyrse. The corolla, calyx, pedicels, and rachis are granular farinose. The salviform corolla is 4 lobed and the tube is bent. The corolla is purple. The fruit is a capsule. Lindley's Butterfly Bush flowers are attractive to butterflies, bees & hummingbirds. Plants are available from some nurseries that sell “heirloom” species. Plants can also be grown from cuttings or from root suckers. Lindley's Butterfly Bush prefers full sun and a well-draining soil. It is tolerant of poor soils and drought. Plants should not be heavily pruned as is common with other Butterfly Bush species.--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilySCROPHULARIACEAE - Figwort family
Genus Buddleja
Species Buddleja lindleyana Fortune - Lindley's Butterfly Bush

Citation

Citation Buddleja lindleyana Fortune, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30(Misc.): 25. 1844.
Basionym: **
Type: CHINA: Chuzan, 1845, Fortune 37 (neotype: CGE; isoneotypes: BM, G, GOET, K, LE, OXF, P, W). Neotypified by Leeuwenberg, Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 79(6): 130. 1979.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Buddleja lindleyana var. sinuatodentata Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley, var. sinuatodentata Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 120. 1889. CHINA: Hupeh: Ichang, s.d., Henry 624 (lectotype: K; isolectotypes: LE, P). Lectotypified by Leeuwenberg, Meded. Landbouwhogeschool 79(6): 130. 1979.
Adenoplea lindleyana Adenoplea lindleyana (Fortune ex Lindley) Small, Shrubs Florida 109, 133. 1913.Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley 1844. 

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Bullock, Calhoun, Conecuh, Lee, Mobile

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, TROY, UNA, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
AUA_ACC_3854 Lee 23 Jul 1948 Duke, F.M.
 AUA
Buddleja Lindleyana Fortune Ex Lindl.
AUA_ACC_22417 Lee 1 Jul 1970 Hopson, George R.
.0030		 AUA
Buddleja Lindleyana Fortune Ex Lindl.
AUA_ACC_17338 Lee 9 Aug 1969 Floyd, Jr., John A.
200		 AUA
Buddleja Lindleyana Fortune Ex Lindl.
AUA_ACC_41546 Conecuh 11 Jun 1985 Diamond, Alvin R.
818		 AUA
Buddleja Lindleyana Fortune Ex Lindl.
USAM000014394 Mobile 24 May 1971 LeLong, Michel G.
5709		 USAM
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
UWAL0014236 Bullock 09 May 2013 Dykes, Bailee
1623		 UWAL
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
UNA00041024 Lee _ _ 1897 Unknown
s.n.		 UNA
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindl.
UWAL0015151 Bullock 23 Aug 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24461		 UWAL
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
TROY000038460 Bullock 23 Aug 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24461		 TROY
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
ALNHS00007765 Bullock 27 JUL 2022 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#5813		 ALNHS
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune
ALNHS00007766 Bullock 27 JUL 2022 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#5813		 ALNHS
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune
AUA_ACC_21985 Lee 25 May 1970 Williams, S.A.
180		 AUA
Buddleja Lindleyana Fortune Ex Lindl.
TROY000038605 Bullock 09 May 2013 Dykes, Bailee
1623		 TROY
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
UWAL0013837 Bullock 23 Aug 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24461		 UWAL
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
TROY000047216 Calhoun 29 Aug 1961 Lelong, Michel
787		 TROY
Buddleja lindleyana Fortune ex Lindley
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