Coast Leucothoe (Fetter Bush) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Shrub

Flower Color:  White

Flower Size:  Small, in clusters

Flowering Period:  Early to Mid Spring

Flower Type: Urn-shaped, in clusters

Fragrant Flowers:  –

Foliage Color:  Dark Green, Purplish-Red Wine color in Winter

Fragrant Foliage:  –

Berries/ Pods:  –

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Insect, Occasionally Wet

Coast Lecouthoe, also known as Fetterbush or Coast Doghobble, is a graceful native evergreen flowering shrub that loves life on the shady side. It is a mounding shrub 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet with arching stems clothed in beautiful, leathery, lance-shaped glossy leaves that emerge bronze in spring, turning to rich green in summer, and then purplish to wine-red leaves during the winter. In early to mid-spring, abundant clusters of fragrant, urn-shaped white flowers droop from the leaf axils. Coastal Leucothoe will add elegance, unique texture, and color to any garden bed or woodland border, combining beautifully with perennial ferns, hosta lilies, woodland grasses, and many other natural-looking shade-loving plants and trees. You might be happy to know that the deer and rabbits turn their nose to it.

Growing in a mound to 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide, the Coast Leucothoe is ideal for an accent in smaller garden spaces or in groupings or as a natural hedge in shady landscapes, woodlands, flowering shrub borders, and home foundation plantings. It is excellent for planting on shady slopes and creekbanks to help stabilize the soil. It is a fine addition to woodland gardens, rain gardens, butterfly gardens, beneficial pollinator gardens, fragrance gardens, and native plant gardens, and looks especially nice around boulders and garden ponds. 

Suggested Spacing:  3 to 3.5 feet apart for solid hedges; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants