Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii)

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Buddleja davidii - Wikipedia
Buddleja davidii - USDA PLANTS Database
Buddleja davidii - Missouri Botanical Garden

Duration: Perennial

Native to: Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan

Edibility: Not described as edible

Status in Yard: Died, not replaced

I bought a butterfly bush from Buchanan's, an organic nursery in Houston. It lived by the back fence in 2014, but it died within a year.

Here is the butterfly bush on April 20, 2014.

The flower preparing to bloom on May 11, 2014

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I took this picture of it in bloom on May 16, 2014.

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By June 10, 2014, the butterfly bush had started fruiting. Some of the flower heads had extended along with the branch they were on as they produced the fruits (left foreground).

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On October 19, 2014, the flower heads were shriveling as the plant started to die back to its roots for winter.

On February 1, 2015, I found emerging leaves in the same location.