The non-native clethras available at O’Donal’s — Clethra acuminata or cinnamon clethra and Clethra barbinervis or Japanese clethra — are both larger than alnifolia while still being fragrant.

If hues of cinnamon command your attention, then cinnamon clethra (Clethra acuminata) with its attractive tan and cinnamon-colored peeling bark deserves a place in your yard.

In that regard I’m locked and loaded: for a fern, it’s cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea); for a small tree, it's sweet pepperbush (Clethra acuminata); and for a shrub, it's highland doghobble ...

We measured stem growth and recruitment in three populations of Clethra alnifolia established in wetland forests, in canopy gaps, and in a recently cleared powerline right-of-way (ROW) to assess the ...