Itea virginica 'Bailteaone' ~ First Editions® Love Child® Sweetspire white-bloom IMAGES: Plant Image Library from

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Itea virginica 'Bailteaone' ~ First Editions® Love Child® Sweetspire white-bloom IMAGES: Plant Image Library fromLove Child Sweetspire is a rounded deciduous shrub with bright green foliage that turns burgundy in fall. Small fragrant white flowers bloom on drooping cylindrical racemes from spring into summer and are followed by berries. Prefers rich, moist to wet well drained soils. Can form dense colonies if suckers are left unchecked. Deer resistant. Itea virginica is a host plant for the American Holly Azure butterfly if in the coastal plains, otherwise it