A flowering shrub with fragrant white flower spikes, native to southeastern North America; popular in gardens.
Named after John Fothergill, an 18th-century English physician and botanist who maintained a famous garden. Commemorative Latin scientific naming.
Fothergilla was named after a Quaker doctor who pioneered natural history collecting—it's one of many plants named after fascinating historical botanists we rarely hear about!
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