Lyonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. There are about 35 species native to Asia and North America. [1] These are shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen. Some have rhizomes. The leaves are spirally arranged and the inflorescences grow in the leaf axils. The flowers are usually white, sometimes red. The fruit is a capsule.

Fetterbush is a native evergreen shrub in the heath family that is found in swampy areas, bogs and wet woods from VA to FL and west to LA. It grows 3-6 feet tall and wide and has a dense arching often sprawling form that impedes (fetters) foot traffic of animals and humans making it …

Shiny lyonia (Lyonia lucida) is an erect woody evergreen shrub that produces a plethora of small, fragrant blooms in whitish-pink to pink to red.

Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina lacks conspicuous bracts among the flowers and is more common in the Mountains and Piedmont. Plant it in a shrub border or as a hedge in a woodland, rain, or water garden. Maleberry is a nectar plant and produces good tasting honey.

Very showy when in flower, Lyonia lucida (Fetter Bush) is a graceful, arching and sprawling, evergreen shrub prized for its sweetly fragrant, palest shell-pink to white urn-shaped flowers. Blooming in early to late spring, they are borne in drooping clusters of 10-15 blossoms and appear in axillary clusters before the new growth.

Long-lived, Lyonia ferruginea (Rusty Staggerbush) is an evergreen flowering shrub or small tree prized for its small axillary clusters of fragrant, white, urn-shaped flowers. Blooming in early to late spring, they emit a pleasant rose fragrance and are attractive to butterflies and bees.

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White urn-shaped, fragrant flowers in racemes hanging down under the stems and leaves. Capsule. All parts of this plant are highly toxic if consumed. Wet habitats such as pocosins, woodlands, and swamp forests. Common in the South Carolina coastal plain and sandhills. Rare in the piedmont. Absent from the mountains.

Lyonia lucida is an evergreen shrub native to the coastal plain of the southeast, where it is predominantly found in wetland habitats. It grows best in moist to wet soils, in deep shade or part sun sites. Clusters of drooping, bell-shaped flowers bloom in the spring and attract pollinators.

Lyonia lucida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae known by the common names fetterbush lyonia, hurrahbush, and staggerbush. Other plants may also be called fetterbush. This broadleaved evergreen plant grows on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States from Virginia to Florida to Louisiana. It also occurs in Cuba. [1]