Conradina verticillata Fred Heutte Lovely with native azaleas and

Lovely with native azaleas and dogwoods that bloom in the same season

the whole plant used for coughs and chest complaints

long cultivated in Japan and known only in this dress

glossy screen

since the thorns are formidable

Conradina verticillata Fred Heutte Lovely with native azaleas andA small shrub of the Cumberland Plateau, found only on the flood scoured cobble and sand bars of three river systems in eastern Tennessee and a sliver of Kentucky: the Big South Fork of the Cumberland, the Caney Fork, and the Obed. The rest of the Conradina clan keeps to the sand scrub of Florida and the Gulf Coast of Alabama, sun baked and semitropical. This species took a different path, north into the cooler uplands, and the cold hardiness that