Buddleja glomerata
Buddleja glomerata is a shrub endemic to the mountains of the Karoo desert in South Africa, where it grows among boulders on dry hillsides. The species was first described and named by Heinrich Wendland in 1825. The shrub has a number of common names locally, the most popular being 'Karoo Sagewood'.
Description
Buddleja glomerata typically grows to in height, with white-tomentose branchlets. The leaves are opposite, ovate or elliptic, long by wide, heavily lobed to form undulate margins; the petiole. Silver-grey on emergence, the leaves turn bluish-green with age. The inflorescence is a terminal panicle < in diameter, comprising congested cymes forming sub-globose heads of 10-20 faintly-scented yellow flowers, the yellow anthers protruding from the corollas.In the UK, the flowers emerge in May, thence sporadically throughout the summer.