| Description | Virginia Sweetspire Henry's Garnet (SItea virginica) A nice medium shrub with white flowers in the spring and red fall foliage that rivals or beats the old stand by Burning Bush. Very tolerant of wet areas. |
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| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-9 |
| Sunlight | full sun to part sun |
| Moisture | prefers moist, very tolerant of wet areas, the shrubs in my yard are next to a swamp and they tolerate the wetness |
| Soil & Site | moist well drained, tolerates average |
| Temperature | hardy to about -20 F |
| Flowers | white, fragrant, drooping racemes |
| Leaves | oval dark green, blazing garnet red in the fall, red stems |
| Dimensions | 3-4 feet tall by 4-6 spread, can spread to form a colony |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Native Site | Native to wet areas in the coastal plain from southern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania to Florida and Louisiana, then north along the Mississippi to southern Illinois. |
| Author's Notes | I purchased my shrubs in the fall at a local garden center. At first I walked past them because at a glance I though they were some type of Dogwood. In wet springs the plants can be submerged in water for brief periods of time.. |
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