is a small deciduous shrub discovered by George Forrest in 1913 on open ground at 3,000 m on the Tong Shan in the Yangtze valley, China.

[1] Resembling B. crispa, it was sunk under this name by Leeuwenberg,[2] although it has recently been restored as a separate species.

[3] It is likely that some specimens previously grown under this name at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh were actually Buddleja sterniana.

Buddleja caryopteridifolia grows to 2 m in height in the wild, and bears small upright terminal panicles with relatively few flowers in the autumn.

The grey-green opposite foliage, is similar to smaller forms of B. crispa, the leaf blade ovate to triangular and with an irregular toothed margin, shortly petiolate;[2] the species is named for the foliage which can resemble that of several species of the genus Caryopteris.