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
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 8–20 ft
- Spacing
- 8–15 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, MS