Leatherwood - Dirca palustris Size:1 Gallon and wet soils

and wet soils

including Silver-spotted Skipper

semi-evergreen groundcover will creep slowly but steadily under trees

brilliant red fruits emerging from yellow casings decorate the branches well into winter

Wildlife Value: Flowers attract butterflies and native bees

Leatherwood - Dirca palustris Size:1 Gallon and wet soilsLeatherwood is an unusual and uncommonly encountered woodland plant perfect for the avid plant collector or shade gardener. Drooping yellow flowers hang like tinsel from the stems early in spring before bright green leaves emerge for the season, giving way to clear yellow fall color. Smooth grey brown bark on young twigs gives way to a wrinklier, greyer, older bark on lets call them more mature stems. Slow growing but long lived. The young stems are