Fetter bush (Lyonia lucida) is also known as Stagger Bush, Hurrah Bush, Pipe Stem, and Shiny Lyonia. It is a native shrub in the Ericaceae, mostly shorter than 5-6 ft but may reach 12 ft. The twigs and bark are distinctly ridged with the young twigs green but turning brown with age. The leaves are alternate, simple, evergreen and with pinnate major veins. The blades are leathery, dark shiny green, mostly broadly elliptic, and punctate with black dots. The margins are entire but closely paralleled by a distinctive and conspicuous vein and the margins are revolute (rolled under margins, my BRF). The flowers are in racemes in the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a capsule with many very small seeds. The cylindric flowers vary from pale to deep pinkish or almost red. The capsule is rounded to urn-shaped. A number of fetterbush plants adjacent to Allen Acres and will be in flower shortly. No caterpillar use of this species reported but several moths are reported to use other species in the genus. Reported from East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Natchitoches, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vernon, and Washington.