Berzelia lanuginosa, commonly known as common button bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bruniaceae native to the Western Cape region of South Africa.[1] It is a perennial shrub that is hardy from USDA hardiness zones 9a to 11. It grows to be 4to tall.[2]
Carl Linnaeus, the "father of taxonomy", described it as Brunia lanuginosa in volume one of his Species Plantarum in 1753.[3] French botanist erected the genus Berzelia, giving it the binomial name Berzelia lanuginosa in 1826.