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Scientific Name: Fothergilla gardenii
Common Name: dwarf fothergilla, witch alder
Family Name: Hamamelidaceae
Origin: U.S. - southeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Fall interest, Mixed shrub border, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Pubescent, Tomentose, Obovate, Ovate, Dentate, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Spike, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, most blades obovate, 4-6cm long x 3-5cm wide, toothed towards apex, pubescent underneath, turn red-orange-yellow in fall; flowers white, fragrant, terminal 'bottlebrush' filaments. Winter ID: twigs zigzag, fuzzy; buds stalked, ovoid, 3-5mm long; flower buds ovoid, 6-11mm long. Deciduous shrub, generally small, 2-3(6) ft (0.6-1m), dense, rounded outline, occasionally upright. Leaves alternate, simple, obovate to oblong, 2.5-6.5cm long, blue-green to dark green above, pale or glaucous and tomemtose below, margin sometimes entire. May have excellent fall color (yellow to scarlet). Flowers, which are without petals, have a bottle-brush look, 2.5-5cm long, whitish, the stamens are the showy portions (white stamens and yellow anthers), tend to appear before the foliage.