Buckwheat Tree
Cliftonia monophylla
Buckwheat tree (titi) is an evergreen shrub or small tree of Southeastern bogs and streamheads, smothered in fragrant white-pink flower spikes that are a major early-season honeybee plant.
- Family
- Cyrillaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 12–18 ft
- Spacing
- 6–10 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC