By Mary H. Dyer, Master Naturalist and Master Gardener Buttonbush is a unique plant that thrives in moist locations. Buttonbush shrubs love garden ponds, rain ponds, river banks, swamps or just about any site that is consistently wet. The plant tolerates water as deep as 3 feet. If you’re thinking about planting a rain garden, growing buttonbush is a great idea. Read on for buttonbush plant info, including a few tips for buttonbush plant care. Buttonbush Plant Info Buttonbush is known by a number of alternate names including button willow, pond dogwood, swampwood or button wood. The interesting summer blooms, which look like spiky ping pong balls, have earned the plant the monikers of Spanish pincushion, globeflower, honeyball or little snowball. If you purchase the plant from a nursery, you’ll get what you’re looking for if you refer to the plant by its scientific name – Cephalanthus occidentalis. Buttonbush is
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