Cercis canadensis Medicinal The South has prized the

The South has prized the shrub for generations for that same unreasonable winter fragrance

the gap between paving stones

and baptisia for a sunny native planting

deliberate growth

Cercis canadensis Medicinal The South has prized theFew native trees announce spring like Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, whose bare branches flush rosy pink and magenta weeks before the dogwoods open. The small pea like flowers cluster not just along the twigs but straight from the older branches and even the trunk, a charming trick called cauliflory, and give way to broad, heart shaped leaves. A small, graceful understory tree of eastern and central North America, redbud belongs in the legume