When it blooms
In bloom: May to July
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Dry, Moist
- Size
- 60–120 cm
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
New Jersey Tea is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Mottled DuskywingEndangeredButterflyThis endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
Photos: Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0
Grow New Jersey Tea where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.