Cercis canadensis Medicinal from the Greek chion

from the Greek chion

and a beautiful one

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

long valued in folk medicine

Give the plant full sun

Cercis canadensis Medicinal from the Greek chionFew 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