Zenobia pulverulenta

The common honey-cup or dusty zenobia is a semi-evergreen to deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit. It typically grows very slowly to 1–3 m tall in moist or wet areas in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain from Virginia to Georgia.

• Leaves are up to 7.5 cm long, alternate, leathery, untoothed, wavy-edged, elliptic to oval, waxy smooth on both surfaces. Color is typically powdery gray to gray-green bloom, hence the common name of dusty zenobia. Leaves turn an attractive reddish-purple in fall.
• Flowers are white, bell-shaped, anise-scented, up to 1.2 cm across, blooming in short pendulous racemes in May to June. Flowers resemble lily-of-the-valley in shape but are larger.
• Fruits are 5-valved capsules.