Buddleia

Name: Buddleia

Scientific name: Buddleja davidii

Category: Trees and bushes

Nature Stars: 20

What are nature stars?

About: A popular garden plant, introduced from China in the 1890s and now widely naturalised on waste ground, along railway lines and in towns.

How to identify: A very familiar bush, with large inflorescences of small purple (sometimes white) flowers.

Where: Widespread.

Fantastic fact: Buddleia is also known as the Butterfly Bush, because it is such a popular nectar source in gardens.

Photograph credit: Philip Precey