Buddleja davidii Franch., 1888

🇬🇧 Butterfly-bush

🇫🇷 Arbre-à-papillon, Arbre-aux-papillons, Buddleia de David, Buddleia du père David

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Lamiids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Buddlejeae
Genus: Buddleja
Species: Buddleja davidii

Presence

Introduced invasive.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): NA Not Applicable

Notes

Possible confusion with B. japonica Hemsl., 1889, which has winged stems.

Named after Armand David (1826-1900), a French catholic priest, zoologist and botanist, who discovered this species in Eastern Tibet in 1869.

Photographs

img/buddleja-davidii.webp — Buddleja davidii

img/buddleja-davidii-2.webp — Buddleja davidii

img/buddleja-davidii-3.webp — Buddleja davidii - Leaves

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 1052). Biotope.