Vitex trifolia "Variegata" Fred Heutte is a striking

is a striking

so a shrub in full bloom reads as a haze of pale lavender rather than a mass of solid color

pounding the leaves into pastes laid on aching joints or troubled ears and simmering leaves and young fruit into folk decoctions

from Mississippi and Georgia down into Florida

funnel-shaped flowers open two inches across

Vitex trifolia "Variegata" Fred Heutte is a strikingA brightly variegated cousin of the chaste tree, grown for foliage as much as flower. Vitex trifolia, sometimes called the three leaf chaste tree or Arabian lilac, is a warm climate shrub of the mint family, native along tropical and subtropical coasts from eastern Africa through southern Asia to Australia and the Pacific. The species name trifolia points to the leaves, usually held in threes, and the selection 'Variegata' edges each gray green