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["Richard Moyer" <ramoyer@gmail.com>]

Doug Woodward wrote: Richard, can you say anything more about when in the fall Eleagnus
pungens blooms, especially in terns of what other plants are doing, leaves
dropping, fruit ripening etc.?
Are the flowers attractive to bees? To Monarch butterflies?
 

Doug,

from Radford, Ahles, and Bell: Manual Vascular Flora of the Carolinas:

Bloom Oct-Nov; Fruit Mar-Apr.

I have seen honeybees on the blooms locally in October.  Don't know about butterflies.

Blooming corresponds with leaf drop for many deciduous trees here.

Richard Moyer

East TN  Daffodils blooming despite the cold