buttonbush
noun
but·ton·bush
ˈbə-tᵊn-ˌbu̇sh 
: a North American shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) of the madder family with globular flower heads
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Those native plants include the Turk’s cap flower, the buttonbush and inland sea oats.
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Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
In the heart of the garden, there are towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.
—Washington Post, 7 July 2021
Not Teddy, who—when the clarion broke across the pastures at Seven Pines and Opequon, and the smoke bombs began to fly at Franklin and Fort Stedman—lay down on the mossy forest path, or beside the bursting blooms of buttonbush, or in the fields.
—Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
Visitors to the preserve trundle along a wobbly wooden boardwalk, where they are welcomed by a breathtaking view of a serene, blue lake framed by stands of native flora: swamp loosestrife, pickerel weed, lotus flowers, swamp milkweed and buttonbush.
—James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
In the heart of the garden, there are towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.
—Washington Post, 7 July 2021
Not Teddy, who—when the clarion broke across the pastures at Seven Pines and Opequon, and the smoke bombs began to fly at Franklin and Fort Stedman—lay down on the mossy forest path, or beside the bursting blooms of buttonbush, or in the fields.
—Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
Visitors to the preserve trundle along a wobbly wooden boardwalk, where they are welcomed by a breathtaking view of a serene, blue lake framed by stands of native flora: swamp loosestrife, pickerel weed, lotus flowers, swamp milkweed and buttonbush.
—James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
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