Sweet Pepperbush (Summersweet)
Clethra alnifolia
The flowers of this shrub have a sweet-spicy fragrance.
Japanese Clethra, Japanese Sweet Shrub, Sweet Pepperbush
Named for its summer-blooming, fragrant flowers, Summersweet performs best in acid, moist, organic soils. It spreads slowly by suckers to form broad colonies.
Clethra alnifolia (Sweet pepperbush)
Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Park Seed
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This sweet pepperbush showed up uninvited on the shore of the Jack's Catfish Pond, in two years time the original plant has grown into a small colony.
Usage
Sweet pepperbush is an outstanding shrub for a naturalized garden.
Clethra alnifolia--Summersweet, Sweet Pepperbush
CLETHRA INSECTS
Codiaeum variegatum - Croton ...
This native species, also called sweet pepperbush, flowers profusely for 4 to 6 weeks during July and August when few other plants are in bloom, and the flowers fill the garden with their spicy fragrance.
Clethra - Pepperbush
Clethra accuminata - Sweet Pepperbush; White Alder
Elliottia - Elliottia Trees
Elliottia racemosa - Elliottia; Southern Plum ...
Clethra alnifolia [Summersweet, Sweet Pepperbush] Common Name List
(plant habit, flowering) (flower cluster, developing and blooming) (flower clusters)
(flower clusters and leaves, "portrait") (leaves and seed clusters, fall) (info) ...
Summersweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)
Sweet fern (Comptonia peregrina)
Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
Tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima)
Viburnum (Viburnum)
Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) ...
 See also: Pepper, Clethra, Pink, Clethra alnifolia, Green
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