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Botanical Name     Common Name
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Abelia chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Abelia
Upright to spreading deciduous shrub native to China and one of the parents of the much more commonly grown Abelia x grandiflora. A good hedge plant with abundant white flowers in summer and with leaves larger than the common Abelia. It is a great ...

Abelmoschus manihot
Common Name: Sunset Hibiscus
Abelmoschus manihot (Hibiscus manihot) is a perennial in the warmer zones, and an annual elsewhere. It bears large showy yellow Hibiscus-like flowers with a maroon eye. It grows well in warmer areas of the U.S. and is easily grown in any well-drain...

Abutilon megapotamicum
Common Name: Trailing Abutilon
Abutilon megapotamicum is a slender branched, somewhat vining deciduous shrub with curious showy hanging lantern-shaped flowers with two tone red and yellow parts. Flowering occurs from late summer into fall. Sometimes used for hanging baskets. Thi...

Abutilon pictum
Common Name: Flowering Maple
A shrub in warm areas with maple-like leaves and orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will thrive during hot summers. May not freeze back every yea...

Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn'
Common Name: Variegated Flowering Maple
Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn' is a shrub in warm areas. Maple-like leaves are variegated with white. Orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will...

Acer barbatum
Common Name: Florida Maple
Acer barbatum is a medium to large deciduous oval shaped tree related to the Northern Sugar Maple and sometimes classified as Acer saccharum ssp.floridanum or as Acer floridanum. More heat-tolerant than Northern Sugar Maple, it is smaller in all it'...

Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice'
Common Name: Red Maple 'Candy Ice'
Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice' is a Woodlanders' introduction found by Norman Beal in Southwest Virginia. Pyramidal in youth, it develops an irregular rounded crown with age. This is an unusual variegated form with pink, white and green leaves. Sunburns ...

Aesculus flava
Common Name: Yellow Buckeye
Aesculus flava ( syn. A. octandra) is a large deciduous tree with typical buckeye characteristics of palmate compound leaves and large smooth nuts. This species has upright terminal clusters of yellowish flowers in spring. Yellow fall color. Bark r...

Aesculus glabra var. nana
Common Name: Shrub Ohio Buckeye
A rare dwarf form of the Ohio Buckeye found in a few locations in northern Alabama and northern Georgia. Decidious shrub with typical palmately compound leaves and upright clusters of greenish yellow flowers in spring followed by large brown "buckey...

Aesculus parviflora
Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye
Wide spreading multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with large palmately compound leaves. Flowers in early summer are long upright white spikes. Showy flowers and bright yellow fall color make this a highly desirable ornamental far beyond it's natural habi...

Aesculus parviflora var. serotina
Common Name: Late-blooming Bottlebrush Buckeye
Wide spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed open deciduous slow growing shrub. Overall shape is irregular almost stratified in appearance. White bottlebrush flowers appear in summer two to three weeks later than typical for the species. Medium to dar...

Aesculus pavia
Common Name: Red Buckeye
Clump forming deciduous round topped shrub or small tree with handsome lustrous dark green foliage. Palmately compound leaves emerge very early and may drop in late summer. Produces six inch panicles of showy red flowers in spring which are attract...

Aesculus pavia (late blooming)
Common Name: Red Buckeye
As with normal Red Buckeye but these are seedlings from a distinct form that flowers several weeks later. Good foliage....

Agapanthus orientalis 'Peter Pan'
Common Name: Lily of the Nile, 'Peter Pan'
A dwarf selection of this water loving perennial with narrow green leaves. Blue flowers on tops of 15-18 inch stems. A good poolside plant. Excellent in containers or dig and overwinter inside in colder zones. Native to South Africa....

Agave utahensis var kaibabensis
Common Name:
A relatively hardy medium size Agave with rosette of stiff spine margined gray-green leaves 2-3 feet long and 2-3 inches wide and with lighter center stripe. Tall center flower spike irregularly produced. Forms many offsets. Plant in well-drained s...

Aleurites fordii
Common Name: Tung-oil Tree

Tung Oil tree is a medium size deciduous tree.  It is ornamental with large (to 10 in) dark green heart shaped or lobed leaves and white to pink flowers in showy panicles in spring. Large inedible seeds are source of tung...


Allium cernuum
Common Name: Wild Nodding Onion
Grass-like leaves and 18 inch tall spkes with nodding umbels of lilac-pink flowers in late spring. Good plants for landscape groupings. Tolerant of rocky slopes and dry hillsides. Our most ornamental native onion. Native to mid-Atlantic states pie...

Aloysia triphylla (Lippia citriodora)
Common Name: Lemon Verbena
Aromatic lemon-scented deciduous shrub with small lanceolate leaves in whorls on stems. Tiny white to lavender flowers in terminal clusters. An herb garden must. Plant in sunny but sheltered spot with good soil that is well-drained but with adequa...

Alpinia japonica
Common Name: Japanese Alpinia
Low growing perennial ginger. Root hardy and often evergreen in zone 8. Foliage is fragrant when bruised or crushed. Showy reddish flowers mostly hidden in the attractive Canna-like foliage. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will thri...

Alpinia sp
Common Name: Evergreen Ginger
Evergreen Ginger produces many long lance-shaped leaves from the base. Spikes of clear yellow flowers extend above the foliage. Plant in part to full shade in moist fertile soil. From seed Collected in 1998 by Frank Bell above Baoguo Monastery on ...

Amelanchier canadensis
Common Name: Serviceberry
Large multi-stem deciduous shrub with small leaves which give good yellow to orange-red fall color. Flowers white in short spikes in very early spring. Very showy in flower. Fruit is raisin size red to purple berry which is tasty and makes good je...

Amelanchier nantucketensis
Common Name: Nantucket Serviceberry
A rare low-growing, thicket forming stoloniferous shrub which occurs on sandy soils in sun. . Mid spring white flowers have shorter petals than most Shadbushes. Edible red fruits like other Shadbush species. We are indebted to Richard Lynch of Swe...

Amelanchier obovalis
Common Name: Shadbush
Upright colony forming deciduous shrub. White flowers in the spring followed by blue-purple fruit. An attractive low growing "shadbush" that is much less common in cultivation compared to the larger species and varieties. A good choice for smaller s...

Ampelopsis brevipedunculata 'Elegans'
Common Name: Variegated Porcelainberry
High climbing deciduous woody vine with elegant ivy-like leaves which have green, pink, and white variegation. Climbs by tendrils and can be used to cover unsightly things. Porcelainberry vine produces showy berries that are varied in color as they...

Amsonia hubrechtii
Common Name: Arkansas Amsonia
This distinctive species of Blue Star native to the South Central U.S. We believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders. It is a strong perennial forming a large dense clump of upright stems clothed with very narrow leaves w...

Andropogon capillipes 'Silver Beauty'
Common Name: Chalky Bluestem
A strikingly silvery-blue grass which is very ornamental when displayed against a dark background. Grows in a discrete clump. This selection from Marion County, FL by Charles and Alan Webb of Superior Trees, Inc. is similar to our selection 'Valdos...

Anisacanthus wrightii
Common Name: Hummingbird Bush
Deciduous shrub with rather small pointed leaves and orange to red tubular star-shaped flowers attractive to hummingbirds. Flowers occur from late spring until frost. Drought tolerant as it is native to the southwestern U.S. It can be a good patio ...

Anisacanthus wrightii 'Pumpkin'
Common Name: Yellow Hummingbird Flower
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Anredera cordifolia
Common Name: Madiera Vine
Anredera cordifolia (Boussingaltia basseloides)is a deciduous perennial vine with rather fleshy leaves and sprays of tiny white fragrant flowers. It has tuberous roots and climbs by twining. Will need a winter mulch in areas with colder winter temp...

Arachnoides simplicior 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Holly Fern
A bold and attractive evergreen fern evergreen to 10 degrees F. The large leaves dark green with a gold stripe down the center of each division. Plant in shade or partial shade with good soil and ample water. Native to eastern Asia but naturalized...

Aralia spinosa
Common Name: Devil's Walking Stick
A hardy but very tropical looking small tree with very large compound deciduous leaves atop a tall slender spiny trunk which is often unbranched. The huge round clusters of white flowers borne at the top of the plant are followed by purple fruits. ...

Arbutus unedo
Common Name: Strawberry Tree
Small tree or large evergreen shrub with urn-shaped pinkish-white flowers in small panicles in fall/early winter. Orange-red strawberry-like fruit. Fruit matures over a year and is present at same time as flowers. Edible but not wonderful ! Slow...

Arbutus x andrachnoides
Common Name: Strawberry Tree Hybrid
Evergreen small tree similar to Arbutus unedo with white bell-like flowers and pink, strawberry-like fruit. On older plants the bark becomes a rich red-brown color. Salt tolerant. Dark green leaves are 1.5 to 4 inches long. Hybrid between A unedo ...

Ardisia crenata
Common Name: Coralberry
A low shrub with a single stem like a little tree. glossy dark green leaves with wavy edges. Small pink flowers in spring followed by clusters of persistent bright red fruit. A very ornamental plant for the southern garden where it will self-seed in...

Ardisia japonica
Common Name: Japanese Ardisia
Stoloniferous evergreen groundcover with glossy green leaves and red berries. A choice groundcover plant for well-drained good soil in shade or semi-shade. Needs regular watering. Native to Japan...

Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with silver edged leaves....

Ardisia japonica 'Ito-Fukurin'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with light silver-gray leaves with thin white margin....

Ardisia japonica 'Nishiki'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see). Ardisia japonica 'Nishiki' ('Hokan Nishiki') has gold and pink variegated leaves on new growth....

Ardisia japonica 'Hinode'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with broad band of yellow variegation in the center of the leaves....

Aristida beyrichiana
Common Name: Southern Wiregrass
This is a fine textured bunch grass with dense wiry foliage and tall, narrow flowering spikes. It is historically the dominant groundcover in frequently burned longleaf pine forests in the southern U.S. It is now becoming rare because of the loss an...

Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima'
Common Name: Red Chokeberry 'Brilliantissima'
Thicket forming deciduous shrub with persistant red fruit. Fall color equal to or superior to burning bush. Adaptable to well-drained or wet soils. This selection has perhaps waxier more lustrous leaves than typical for species. Good ornamental. ...

Asarum europaeum
Common Name: European Ginger
Evergreen groundcover with glossy heart shaped leaves. Flowers inconspicuous at ground level. Urn shaped. Best in somewhat cooler areas with good soil, shade or semi-shade, and adequate moisture. Spreads and forms colonies....

Asarum kumagianum
Common Name: Yakushima Ginger
This is a "wild ginger" like our native Hexastylis species but with larger leaves which are likewise evergreen and beautifuly marbled. This plant is from Yakushima Island in Japan and is a sought after collector's plant for the woodland garden....

Asimina parviflora
Common Name: Dwarf Pawpaw
Similar to commom pawpaw but with smaller leaves, flowers and fruits. Shrub or rarely a small tree. Grows on drier sites, usually woodland hillsides. Native from southern Virginia southward. Rare in cultivation....

Asimina triloba
Common Name: Pawpaw
Tropical looking deciduous small tree. Large leaves have distinctive odor when crushed. Largest native edible fruit. Perishable banana-like fruit in mid-summer has custard like pulp and large seeds. They are relished by raccoons and many people. S...

Aspidistra elatior
Common Name: Cast Iron Plant
An evergreen groundcover with broad dark green leaves all arising directly from the ground. A great plant for very dark or shady corners and once used as a container plants in almost impossible environments hence common names. Fleshy flowers are vi...

Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Cast Iron Plant
Like Aspidistra elatior (which see) but leaves with alternate stripes of white and green. Will lose variegation in high fertility soils. Pot bound plants can display best variegation. May be a bit less hardy than the species....

Aspidistra elatior ''Asahi''
Common Name: Cast Iron Plant, 'Asahi'
An old Japanese variety of Aspidistra elatior (which see) that has and air brushed look to the ends of the leaves which terminate with a whitish tip. The name 'Asahi' reportedly means "Rising Sun"....

Aspidistra lurida 'Milky Way or Ginga'
Common Name: Speckled Cast Iron Plant
Smaller than typical Cast Iron Plant and with myriad small white spots on dark leaves (hence name). According to Plant Delights this is properly 'Ginga' but is more commonly called 'Milky Way' This interesting evergreen groundcover should have cult...

Aster carolinianus
Common Name: Climbing Aster
A most unusual Aster as it is a vine or very scandent shrub with woody stems which do not die back in winter. Abundant late season flowerheads are about 1" diamenter. The ray flowers are blue to purple with yellow disc flowers. It occurs in scatter...

Aster georgiana
Common Name: Georgia Aster
Large bushy perennial Aster with abundant large flower heads with violet ray flowers. Somewhat like Aster grandiflorus but sometimes considered a variety of Aster patens.. This is a rare plant in the wild and known from relatively few localities in ...

Aster laevis 'Bluebird'
Common Name: Aster 'Bluebird'
A selection of our native Smooth Aster made by Richard Lighty at Mt. Cuba Center in Deleware. Large vase shaped clumps bear abundant 1"+ flower heads with violet blue ray flowers surrounding golden disc flowers. This good perennial for the bed or b...

Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite'
Common Name: Aster 'Raydon's Favorite'
A dense bushy plant smothered in fall with large blue-purple flowers. A selection from the former Holbrook Farm Nursery in N.C. A fine garden plant for sunny border with well-drained soil. Aromatic foliage. Native to dry prairies and rocky slopes...

Athyrium filix-femina
Common Name: Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina (asplenioides) is an easy to grow lacy deciduous fern. Likes shade and humus rich moist soil. Native to Europe and Asia...

Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum'
Common Name: Dwarf Lady Fern
A dwarf form of the Lady Fern (which see). Delicate light green leaves, dense. Easy to grow and perfect for shady spot where small fern is needed....

Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum'
Common Name: Japanese Painted Fern
Athyrium nipponicum (goeringianum) 'Pictum' is a cool gray-green and silvery deciduous groundcovering fern. Best color when they receive some direct sunlight, preferably in the morning but like most ferns they should be planted in rich humusy and mo...

Athyrium x 'Ghost'
Common Name: Lady Fern 'Ghost' Hybrid
A cross between Lady Fern and Japanese Painted Fern. Strong grower. Will bring a silver accent to your shady garden. Originated in cultivation....

Aucuba chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Aucuba
A rare Chinese relative of the common Japanese Aucuba. Perhaps first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders. Evergreen shrub with broad coarsely toothed leaves with a few yellow dots. Possibly not as cold hardy as the Japanese species. Use in shady or se...

Aucuba japonica 'Golden King'
Common Name: Golddust Plant
An evergreen shrub with rather large leathery leaves which in this clone are very heavily splashed with yellow. We obtained this male clone a few years ago from Dr. Michael Dirr who was then working with and evaluating a number of Aucuba varieties w...

Aucuba japonica var. borealis
Common Name: Northern Japanese Aucuba
Evergreen shrub with leathery dark green leaves. Female plants produce red berries. A compact, small leaf form presumably the form from the colder sections of the range in Japan. Surviving 4 degrees F in 1994 at the U.S. National Arboretum. As with...

Baccharis angustifolia
Common Name: False Willow
A salt tolerant semi-evergreen upright shrub with small narrow glossy willow-like leaves. Found in saline coastal marsh areas but grows well in ordinary garden soil in full sun. A graceful, attractive, and little-known shrub in the Composite family...

Baccharis halimifolia
Common Name: Groundsel Bush
Semi-evergreen shrub Composite with small gray-green toothed leaves. Originally from edges of coastal salt marshes but now widely naturalized inland on sunny disturbed sites. Female plants of this adaptable and salt tolerant shrub produce showy whi...

Baptisia albescens
Common Name: Spiked Wild Indigo
Tall perennial Baptisia similar to Baptisia alba and requiring same conditions. This species has purple tinted glaucous stems and long slender upright spikes of white flowers. Slender upward pointed pods distinguish it from B. alba which has fat do...

Baptisia australis
Common Name: Blue Wild Indigo
When Woodlanders began in 1980 this was about the only Baptisia known to gardeners. We subsequently introduced many other species which have become popular garden perennials. Baptisia australis is a long-lived perennial that is essentially a prairie...

Baptisia megacarpa
Common Name: Apalachicola wild indigo
A rather large growing perennial Baptisia with terminal spikes of creamy flowers followed by large pods. This is a very rare species from the northwest Florida area. It is somewhat more shade tolerant than most Baptisia and makes an attractive gard...

Baptisia minor
Common Name: Dwarf Blue False Indigo
Small leafed version of better-known B. australis and often classified as Baptisia austrials var. minor. This plant is lower growing and more compact with abundant blue flowers in spring held well above the attractive foliage. Much admired in our g...

Baptisia sphaerocarpa
Common Name: Yellow False Indigo
Baptisias first offered by Woodlanders'(which includes virtually all except B. australis) are becoming the latest garden craze. This is one we first offered in 1987 from seed we collected in Chambers County, TX. Blue-green foliage and spikes of bri...

Barleria cristata
Common Name: Philippine Violet
Called "Phillipine Violet" but neither Phillipine nor a Violet. Showy blue flowers in late summer and autumn. Perennial in zone 8-9, 4-6 foot shrub in zone 10. In zone 8 cut back plants afterfrost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand ov...

Begonia grandis (pink)
Common Name: Hardy Pink Begonia
Begonia grandis (evansiana) (pink) is a lovely pink flowered begonia with large pointed leaves with red veins. Flowers in drooping clusters through the summer. A surprisingly cold-hardy perennial begonia from tuber-like roots. Best in rich moist ...

Betula uber
Common Name: Ashe's Round-leaf Birch
Medium sized deciduous tree. This is a federally listed endangered species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Cutting grown plants. Similar to Sweet Birch (Betula lenta) but with rounded leaves. Known in the wild only from a few plants along on...

Bignonia capreolata 'Tangerine Beauty'
Common Name: Crossvine 'Tangerine Beauty'
High climbing semi-evergreen vine with bright orange trumpet shaped flowers. A good flowering vine that climbs high by tendrils and hold-tights. Effective if planted on fence or trellis in sun or semi-shade. Flowers heavily in early summer and spor...

Bignonia   (Anisostichus) capreolata var. atrosanguinea
Common Name: Red Crossvine
Vigorous evergreen or semi-evergreen vine climbing by tendrils or hold-fasts. Leaves may be narrower and longer than typical for the species but main feature is abundant red trumpet shaped flowers. Typical form of Crossvine has orange flowers. Good...

Bouvardia ternifolia
Common Name: Bouvardia, Scarlet
A small shrub with whorls of leaves and extremely showy red flowers in terminal clusters. This is a plant from the southwestern U.S. and Mexico and needs full sun, well-drained soil, and freedom from competing vegetation....

Brugmansia (Datura) suaveolens 'Pink'
Common Name: Angel's Trumpet 'Pink'
Bold subtropical plant with large and showy pink trumpet like flowers. Herbaceous in zone 8, treelike in zone 10. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As weather ...

Brugmansia (Datura) suaveolens 'White'
Common Name: Angel's Trumpet 'White'
Herbaceous perennial in zone 8 but tree-like in zone 10. Large coarse branched bold plant with tobacco-like leaves and hanging huge white fragrant trumpet-like flowers in late summer and fall. (Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound...

Buddleia alternifolia
Common Name: Alternate-leaf Butterflybush
Deciduous shrub with leaves alternate unlike other Buddleias. Has been likened to a small weeping willow when not in flower and a purple waterfall when in bloom. Hardiest of all butterflybushes. First to flower. Flowers on previous year's wood. ...

Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella
Common Name: Los Lerios Butterflybush
Evergreen shrub with somewhat heart-shaped gray green leaves with lighter undersides. Originally collected by Yucca-do Nursery near Los Lerios, Cohuila, Mexico and previously offered by us a "Buddleia sp. "Los Lerios". Identity cleared up for us by...

Buddleia davidii ''Attraction''
Common Name: Butterfly-bush, Attraction

Buddleia davidii 'Attraction' is a more compact shrub than typical for the species and ultimately forms a somewhat rounded outline. Its arching branches are lined with gray-green leaves which have no fall color. Royal red ...


Buddleia lindleyana
Common Name: Lindley Butterflybush
Evergreen or semi-evergreen arching shrub with rather lustrous dark green leaves. Flowers occur in upright arching or hanging 3 to 8 inch long panicles and are attractive to butterflies. Plant in sun or semi-shade in good soil that is well-drained....

Buddleia loricata
Common Name: Mountain Sagewood
A South African evergreen shrub with narrow sage-like leaves. The sweetly scented small terminal spikes of small flowers are creamy white or yellow sometimes with orange centers. Little-known and largely untested in the U.S. the Mountain Sagewood o...

Buddleia salvifolia
Common Name: Sageleaf Buttrtflybush
A medium to large South African shrub which has proven surprisenly hardy in trials at Athens, GA. Flowers of pale lavender are not particularly fragrant but Dr. Dirr says: "All visitor's to our trials have become enamored with the foliage". Give this...

Buddleia x weyeriana 'Honeycomb'
Common Name: Yellow Butterflybush
Hybrid between B. globosa and B. davidii. Better and more vigorous than B. 'Sungold'. Obtained by Dr. Mike Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland and named 'Honeycomb'. Purchased as the variety 'E.H. Wilson,'it turned out to be a very differen...

Bumelia thornei
Common Name: False Buckthorn, Thorne's

Bumelia (Sideroxylon) thornei is a rare small tree with small oval leaves, rather crooked or pendulous thorny branches, and black raisin size fruits. It grows naturally in moist to wet soil but is adaptable and appears to ...


Bumelia (Sideroxylon) reclinata (reclinatum)
Common Name: Florida Bully
Large deciduous shrub or small tree with tough irregular branching habit and small reticulate veined leaves. Tiny greenish white flowers are attractive to pollenators and are followed by small black berries. Found throughout Florida and in scattere...

Butia capitata
Common Name: Pindo Palm
Medium size palm tree with trunk to 1 1/2 feet in diameter. Blue-green pinnate leaves elongate, curving, pinnae regularly arranged or sometimes clustered, ascending from the rachis. Hardiest "feather leaf" palms and commonly planted in the southeas...

Buxus balearica
Common Name: Box, Balearic Island
This seldom offered evergreen shrub or small tree is seldom seen in the U.S. It is related to and similar to the familiar Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) but has larger leaves. It is probably less cold-hardy but perhaps a good choice for warmer climat...

Caesalpinia gillesii
Common Name: Bird of Paradise Shrub

Bird of Paradise Shrub is a medium size open growing shrub with compound blue-green leaves with tiny leaflets. Grown for the showy yellow flowers with long red curved staymens. These are followed by flat seed pods. Plant in sunny s...


Caesalpinia japonica
Common Name:

This Japanese legume is a strong growing, viney deciduous shrub.  It produces terminal clusters of showy yellow flowers with red stamens. The entire plant is armed with recurved hook-like spines making it a formidable anti-tre...


Callicarpa acuminata
Common Name: Black Beautyberry
Deciduous shrub somewhat like Callicarpa americana. Branches arching and shiny clusters of small shiny black berries. Collected in Mexico by the late and great Texas plantsman Lynn Lowery and perhaps first offered to widespread market by Woodlanders...

Callicarpa americana
Common Name: American Beautyberry
Deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with rather large coarsely toothed velvety opposite leaves. Flowers small purple in clusters around stems at leaf nodes and followed in late summer by showy clusters of BB sized purple berries. Sun or semi-shade in aver...

Callicarpa americana 'Bok Tower'
Common Name: Beautyberry 'Bok Tower'
Like Callicarpa americana (which see) but with white berries. This selection from Polk County, FL by Jonathan Shaw, former director of Bok Tower Gardens is late flowering and fruiting. Perhaps the best white-fruited selection for the Deep South but ...

Callicarpa americana 'Welsh's Pink'
Common Name: Pink Beautyberry
This Callicarpa americana (which see) is a selection with pink berries. We believe this unusual selection is from Texas....

Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'
Common Name: Bodinier Beautyberry 'Profusion'
Excellent Dutch cultivar of this Chinese deciduous shrub. Upright arching branches and bronze-purple new growth which turns pinkish purple in fall. Abundant small purple berries in sizeable clusters. Will fruit as a young plant. Full sun for best...

Callicarpa cathayana
Common Name: Chinese Beautyberry
Deciduous shrub with clusters of small purple flowers along stems followed by mauve purple berries in showy clusters. This Beautyberry acquired through the U.S. National Arboretum is little-known in cultivation and was probably first offered in the ...

Callicarpa dichotoma 'Issai'
Common Name: Beautyberry 'Purple Issai'
Purple Beautyberry is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This selection fruits heavily as a young plant and abundant small violet berries follow small lavender pink flowers. Plant in...

Callicarpa dichotoma 'Splashy'
Common Name: Variegated Purple Beautyberry
Deciduous shrub with arching branches, small pink flowers, and abundant clusters of small purple berries. This selection introduced from Japan by our friend Ted Stephens of Nurseries Carolinana is highly variegated with irregular white blotches and ...

Callicarpa dichotoma var. albifructus
Common Name: White Fruited Asiatic Beautyberry
Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form. Callicarpa dichotom...

Callicarpa pilosissima
Common Name: Taiwan Beautyberry

This Beautyberry is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub native to Taiwan and little known in the U.S. It has large, 10-12 inch long fuzzy leaves and clustered small white berries. It is a striking novelty shrub for mild clima...


Callicarpa pilosissima x
Common Name: Beautyberry Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid Beautyberry we grew from seed collected from one of our large-leafed subtropical Callicarpa pilosissima. The pollen parent could be any of a number of other Callicarpa species in our collection. This plant has rather felty corr...

Callistemon paludosa (hyb?)
Common Name: Bottlebrush Pink
Evergreen shrub with arching to pendulous branches. Leaves dark green lance like along stems. Flowers terminal pink "bottlebrushes". This relatively cold hardy bottlebrush is unusual in that it has pink flowers freely in mid-summer. Native to Aus...

Callistemon rigidus 'Clemson'
Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Clemson'
A small to medium sized evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers. It survived outside for years at Clemson, SC., an area generally considered too cold for these Australian plants. Introduced by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana who...

Callistemon sp. 'Woodlanders Hardy'
Common Name: Bottlebrush Cultivar
Medium, arching, evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers in late spring. Originally offered by us as C. sieberi, but that species should have yellow flowers. Has proven winter hardy in Raleigh, NC. A showy plant for sunny or semi-sha...

Calluna vulgaris 'Gold Haze'
Common Name: Heather 'Gold Haze'
Heather is an upright branching, small evergreen ground cover plant with dense, leafy branches that can form a mat. It is a plant that likes a cooler climate and a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is sandy and low in fertility. This golden t...

Calycanthus floridus
Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Upright colony-forming deciduous shrub with dark maroon 1-2" flowers with many sepals and similar petals. Renouned for its fruity fragrance but not all plants have fragrant flowers or they are not consistently fragrant. A woodland plant but suited ...

Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'
Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers yellow and with good fragrance. One of several clones which have been found with yellow flowers. 'Athens' was provided to Dr. Mike Dirr by Jane Symmes of the now def...

Calycanthus floridus 'Alease'
Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Alease'
A selection of Calycanthus floridus (which see) that was given us by our friend Dean Jolly in whose family this has been a heirloom plant. He named it for his grandmother. It traces back to a remote abondoned cemetery in Colleton County, SC. It has...

Calycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey'
Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Michael Lindsey'
Selected & introduced by Allen Bush, Holbrook Farm & Nursery(defunct), Fletcher, NC. Also named by Allen Bush. Dense, rounded, & compact outline, reddish brown flowers have fruity fragrance, dark green spinach looking leaves that turn golden yellow...

Calycanthus hybridus 'Venus'
Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Venus' Hybrid
Deciduous shrub with glossy dark green leaves and showy white flowers resembling the flowers of Star Magnolia but a bit smaller. Flowers in mid summer. This exciting new introduction was bred by Dr. Tom Ranney in North Carolina combining the eastern...

Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'
Common Name: Sweetshrub Hybrid
Calycanthus x raulstonii(C floridus x C sinensis)' Hartlage Wine' is a deciduous shrub intermediate between the parents. Perhaps not stoloniferous. This interspecific (or intergeneric if Sinocalycanthus is maintained as a genus) hybrid is an exciti...

Camellia crapnelliana
Common Name: Crapnell Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...

Camellia edithae
Common Name: Dongnan Sancha Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...

Camellia euryoides
Common Name: Camellia, Mockorange
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and this is one of t...

Camellia japonica 'Kujaku Tsubaki'
Common Name: Peacock Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual selection of Camellia japonica with rather tubular red flowers, long narrow...

Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura'
Common Name: Picotee Flowered Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica. A famous and unique Japanese variety with single fl...

Camellia japonica 'Jury's Yellow'
Common Name: Camellia Cultivar
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica . Semi-double flowers are creamy colored but yellow ...

Camellia japonica (single red)
Common Name: Red Camellia (named cultivar ?)
(unknown cultivar) Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual but nice form of Camellia japonica. This beautiful and ...

Camellia japonica x reticulata 'Brian'
Common Name: Camellia 'Brian' Hybrid
Evergreen shrub with showy Cyclamen pink, semi-double flowers with silvery cast. As best we can determine this is a Camellia reticulata x Camellia japonica hybrid . Flowers in late winter. Compact upright growth habit....

Camellia longicarpa
Common Name: Long Carpel Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is another species of Camellia that is little-known in America. Woodlanders is one of the...

Camellia lutchuensis
Common Name: Fragrant Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...

Camellia rosaeflora
Common Name: Camellia, Rose flower
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...

Camellia saluensis 'Appleblossom'
Common Name: Camellia 'Appleblossom'
A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of Fred Huette, first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden....

Camellia sasanqua 'Leslie Ann'
Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia 'Leslie Ann'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a beautiful fall flowering plant with exquisite 3-4 inch whit...

Camellia sasanqua 'Misty Moon'
Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia 'Misty Moon
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is relatively new selection of this favorite fall blooming Camel...

Camellia sasanqua x reticulata 'California Dawn'
Common Name: Camellia 'California Dawn' Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a hybrid between Camellia sasanqua and the large flowered but rather tender Chinese sp...

Camellia sinensis
Common Name: Tea Plant
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Among the many other species, this one is of great economic importance as the source of tea. ...

Camellia sinensis 'Rosea'
Common Name: Pink Tea Plant
A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish....

Camellia x 'Cinnamon Cindy'
Common Name: Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Kenyo-tai' and a Chinese species, Camellia l...

Camellia x williamsii 'Donation'
Common Name: Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Donation' is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Donkelaeri' x Camellia saluenensis. Exquisit...

Campsis radicans 'Judy'
Common Name: Yellow Trumpetcreeper 'Judy'
A yellow-flowered floriferous selection of this normally orange flowered native vine. High-climbing with compound deciduous leaves. Flowers yellow with dark throat. This Woodlanders introduction is one we found in eastern North Carolina. The well-...

Campsis radicans 'Tifton'
Common Name: Red Trumpetcreeper 'Tifton'
A Woodlanders selection of our native trumpet vine from Tift County, Georgia. Perhaps better adapted for the Deep South than previously available northern selections. Trumpet shaped flowers orange-red to red. May be pruned back hard in winter. Ideal...

Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen'
Common Name: Trumpetcreeper 'Madame Galen'
High-climbing deciduous vine which will attach to rough surfaces with "hold fasts". Compound leaves and large orange/salmon trumpet shaped flowers in summer. A hybrid intermediate between the parents, the American species (Campsis radicans)and the ...

Camptosema praenantrium
Common Name:
A shrubby but somewhat vine-like leguminous plant (pea family) with deciduous leaves resembling the leaves of the common green bean or soybean. Notable for the long spikes of coral orange flowers. A new introduction which we collected in Argentina....

Canna flaccida
Common Name: Southern Marsh Canna
Perennial with light green broad tropical looking leaves typical of Canna. This native species has yellow flowers. Spreads freely in moist to wet soil or in shallow water but grows well in ordinary garden soil. Plant in sunny location with good so...

Canna sp.
Common Name: Red Canna
This Canna is a rather compact plant with medium green leaves and delicate flowers with red and yellow petals. We grew this Canna from seed but do not recall where we obtained it. It is a good subject for the bed, border, or subtropical garden and g...

Carex flaccosperma
Common Name: Blue Wood Sedge
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump-forming grass like plants. This clump forming sedge has glaucus blue to blue-green slightly quilted leaves to 1/2 inch wide. Drought tolerant once established but best in moist soil and semi-shade. Native to sou...

Carex morrowii 'Variegata'
Common Name: Silver Japanese Sedge
Tufted grass-like clumps with 12 inch long narrow leaves with silvery white margins. A popular and attractive cultivar for semi shaded gardens. Native to Japan...

Carya ovata
Common Name: Shagbark Hickory
Large deciduous tree with compound leaves and attractive shaggy bark peeling in strips on trunk. The hard shelled nuts are edible and delicious. Prefers moist, well-drained sites, but adaptable. Native to eastern U.S....

Caryopteris x clandonensis 'First Choice'
Common Name: Bluemist Shrub

'First Choice' is a long-blooming compact form of this favorite shrub or subshrub.  It is a hybrid between Caryopteris indica and Caryopteris mongolica.  It produces dark purple densly clustered flowers ...


Cassia bicapsularis
Common Name: Showy Senna
Subtropical shrub with bright yellow flowers in late fall. Evergreen in zones 10. Stem hardy in zone 9. Seeds poisonous but not deadly. In zone 8 cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch ...

Cassia corymbosa
Common Name: Argentine Senna
Upright shrub with small, dark green compound leaves. Showy yellow flowers in September followed by cylindrical pods. Hardier than Cassia bicarpsularis and winter dormant in zone 8. May freeze to ground in colder zones. An attractive fall floweri...

Castanea mollissima
Common Name: Chinese Chestnut
This bushy Chinese deciduous tree is widely grown as a substitute for the once widepread American Chestnut tree that was essentially eliminated by the chestnut blight brought in from China in 1904. It produces large edible chestnuts which are shed f...

Ceanothus americanus
Common Name: New Jersey Tea

New Jersey Tea is a small hardy deciduous shrub that is widespread in eastern North America where it occurs in a variety of habitats.  It has small rather elm-like leaves and short showy panicles of small white flowe...


Ceanothus x delilianus ''Gloire de Versailles''
Common Name: Ceanothus, 'Gloire de Versailles hybrid

'Glorie des Versailles' is a deciduous shrub that can scramble to 10 feet in favorable areas if not pruned back. It is a cross between Ceanothus americanus and the Mexican Ceanothus coeruleus.  It has la...


Celtis biondii
Common Name: Hackberry, Korean

This Hackberry is a neat deciduous tree with rather pendulous branches and rather small leaves which have unusual long narrow tips. It has smooth gray bark and dark orange berries   It is not common in cultivation but is ...


Celtis tala
Common Name: Tala
Medium size deciduous tree. Leaves are smaller and narrower than our native Hackberries. Branches somewhat spiny. We saw these as picturesque gnarled trees along dry streambeds in Argentina. Showy yellow-orange fruit. Plant in sunny, well-draine...

Cephalanthus occidentalis
Common Name: Buttonbush
Buttonbush is a rounded dediduous shrub which can be trained as small tree. Grows in wet or seasonally flooded sites but does well in ordinary garden situation with sun and adequate water. Flowers white in ball-like clusters about 1-1.5 inch in diam...

Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata'
Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew
Evergreen conifer similar to Yew (Taxus). This variety is prostrate in growth habit. A good substitute for Taxus in the South. Moist well-drained soil but will tolerate drought once established. Holds good green color in winter. Will tolerate full...

Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Fastigata'
Common Name: Columnar Japanese Plum Yew

This is a needle-leaf evergreen shrub with whorled dark green leaves on upright branches. It is an ancient Japanese or Korean clone which will occasionally put out shoots with two ranked leaves that are typical of the species....


Ceratostigma griffithii
Common Name: Griffith's Plumbago
Evergreen subshrub with small leaves which have red margin. Deep blue flowers in summer. Provide a sunny site with well-drained soil, good air circulation, and minimal competition from other plants. Native to the Himalayas...

Ceratostigma willmottianum
Common Name: Chinese Plumbago
Small shrub with small bristly leaves which turn reddish in fall. Rich blue flowers in summer and fall. Should have sunny or semi-shady site with well-drained soil and good air circulation. Native to China...

Cercis canadensis
Common Name: Redbud

Redbud is a well-known small to medium size deciduous tree with heart-shaped leaves and abundant pink flowers in early spring before dogwoods bloom. This species is a widespread native in Eastern North America. Prefers well-dr...


Cestrum elegans
Common Name: Elegant Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy reddish purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand...

Cestrum elegans var. smithii
Common Name: Smith's Jasmine
Similar to Cestrum. elgans (which see), but with profuse blush rose flowers. Suitable in zone 8-10 or in greenhouse where it is everblooming. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over ...

Cestrum nocturnum
Common Name: Ladies of the Night Jasmine
Scandant or spreading shrub in frost free climates but perennial in zone 8. Very fragrant clusters of tubular yellowish flowers that are fragrant at night. Plant in sheltered spot where powerful fragrance at night will be enjoyed. Cut back plants a...

Cestrum nocturnum x diurnum
Common Name: Jasmine Hybrid
Scandant shrub with abundant clusters of lightly fragrant yellow tubular flowers. Mysteriously much hardier than either supposed parent species. In zone 8 it remains a woody shrub. Might be most effectively used if trained on a trellis....

Cestrum parqui
Common Name: Willow-leaved Jasmine
Multi-stem arching shrub with somewhat willow-like leaves and tubular greenish yellow flowers in terminal clusters that are fragrant at night. Probably hardiest of the commonly cultivated species. Sun or semi shade. Said to be posionious to cattle an...

Cestrum purpureum
Common Name: Purple Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over th...

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides'
Common Name: Hinoki Falsecypress
A small evergreen tree with bright green leaves in fern-like sprays. Somewhat random habit of growth but very attractive. One of many horticultural selections of this Japanes conifer. Plant in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil....

Chamaecyparis thyoides
Common Name: Atlantic Whitecedar
Tall attractive conifer with bright green or bluish-green foliage. Found naturally in wet acid soils that do not flood but adaptable to most garden or landscape sites with sun, sandy acidic soil, and ample moisture. An attractive ornamental tree. ...

Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Shiva'
Common Name: Atlantic Whitecedar 'Shiva'
A silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Whitecedar. Presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides but may possibly be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. Found as a seedling on Cape Cod by Rekha Morris of Pendleton, SC. and introduced by Clarence Towe of Wal...

Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Conica'
Common Name: Southern White Cedar Cultivar

'Conica' is a mutant dwarf form of Atlantic Whitecedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides).  'Conica' forms a dense shrub with blue-green foliage and often with several leaders.  This is a neat little cone shaped conifer for smaller...


Chamaedaphne calyculata
Common Name: Leatherleaf
Thicket forming native low evergreen shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. Grows in sandy, acid bogs, but good for garden or rock garden. Related to Leucothoe. This is a very cold hardy plant of northern bogs but range extends ...

Chamaerops humilis
Common Name: Palm, European Fan
Fan leaf palm with spine margined petioles on deeply divided leaves. Usually multi-trunked but occasionally single stem. Old specimens may be taller than 15 feet. A neat and rather slow growing but relatively cold-hardy palm that is adaptable to a...

Chasmanthium latifolium
Common Name: River Oat Grass
Chasmanthium (Uiola) latifolium is a luxuriant and shade tolerant perennial grass with relatively wide leaf blades and taller spikes of drooping seed heads much like "Sea Oats". Attrative in the garden and seed stalks a great component for dried arra...

Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'
Common Name: Pink Turtlehead 'Hot Lips'
This is a clump forming perennial with 1" long pink flowers in dense terminal spikes. Flowers can persist for about 4 weeks. Plant in good soil in sunny bed and provide adequate water. A choice perennial for the garden bed or border. Native to sout...

Chimonanthus praecox
Common Name: Wintersweet
A deciduous shrub of somewhat ungainly habit but with attractive dark green long pointed leaves. It has long been valued in the South for it's very fragrant flowers which appear in mid-winter. The flowers are along the branches and are yellowish cu...

Chionanthus virginicus
Common Name: Fringe Tree
Fringetree is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi-stemmed. A favorite landscape ornamental prized for it's abundant fleecy white flowers in spring followed on female plants by raisin-size purple fruits. Fringetree can be grown in sun...

Chitalpa tashkentensis
Common Name: Chitalpa
x Chitalpa tashkentensis is an interesting large deciduous shrub or small tree. It is a hybrid between the American Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis) and our Southern Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides)but was produced in Tashkent, former USSR. Leav...

Cinnamomum chekiangensis
Common Name: Camphor Tree

This is a large evergreen tree with dense foliage of beautiful shiny leaves. Broadly conical form. This species appears to be quite hardy in north central North Carolina which is well beyond the hardiness range of most members of t...


Cistus x corbariensis (C. hybridus)
Common Name: Rockrose
Low evergreen shrub with abundant white 2 inch flowers like single roses. Plant in sunny or very lightly shaded site with good drainage. Best in a Mediterranean climate but performs well in parts of the Southeast if well sited. Mediterranean Regio...

Cistus x purpureus
Common Name: Orchidspot Rockrose
Low evergreen shrub to 4 feet. A showy hybrid with 2-3" wide purple flowers blotched with maroon. Plant in full sun and well-drained soil. A popular shrub in European gardens and in California. Does well in local gardens here but needs sunny and a...

Citrus Citrus paradisi x Ponciris trifoliata 'Swingle'
Common Name: Citrumelo 'Swingle'
Thorny, semi-evergreen Grapefruit x Ponciris hybrid with fragrant white flowers and somewhat pear-shaped yellow fruits the size of a large orange. Fruit is more ornamental than edible but this is a quite hardy plant which is often used as an underst...

Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto'
Common Name: Myrtle Leaf Orange
Dense compact ornamental shrub or small tree with small pointed myrtle-like leaves, abundant white flowers, and small orange fruit. An attractive plant for the garden or container. Has been very successful outdoors in Augusta, Georgia. This plant ...

Citrus reticulata 'Changsha'
Common Name: Mandarin 'Changsha'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is one of the most cold hardy evergreen citrus. This small tree produces tangerine-like fruits ...

Citrus reticulata 'Keraji'
Common Name: Keraji Mandarin

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas.  Keraji Mandarin is a medium size evergreen tree with typical white fragrant ...


Citrus reticulata (
Common Name: Tangerine
Small evergreen tree with foliage and flowers typical of other Mandarin Orange types (Citrus reticulata) and with tasty small fruits like the familiar "Tangerine". These are seedlings from a tree here in Aiken, SC which was acquired from Camellia Fo...

Citrus reticulata x (reticulata x paradisi) 'Robinson'
Common Name: Mandarin Hybrid 'Robinson'
Evergreen Citrus with sweet, thin skinned Mandarin type fruit ripening in fall. Parentage is Clementine Mandarin x Orlando Tangelo; the latter being a hybrid between 'Dancy' Mandarin and 'Duncan' Grapefruit. Hardiness not tested but may be hardy in...

Citrus sulcata
Common Name: Sanbokan Grapefruit
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a medium sized evergreen citrus tree with typical fragrant white flowers and flavorful yello...

Citrus taiwanica
Common Name: Nanshodaidai
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a vigorous upright spreading evergreen thorny citrus with sour tangerine to orange-like frui...

Citrus (Citrus X) Citrus ichangensis X Citrus grandis (maxima)
Common Name: Ichang Lemon
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a medium size evergreen tree with large leaves with winged petioles and thorny branches. It ...

Citrus (Citrus X) Citrus reticulata x Citrus mitis 'Calamandarin'
Common Name: Calamandarin
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This citrus is possibly a hybrid between a Mandarin and a Calamondin orange. (Calamondin may be a Ma...

Citrus (Microcitrus) australasica
Common Name: Australian Finger Lime

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas.  The Australian Finger Lime is an unusual and relatively cold hardy citr...


Citrus (X Citrus) Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus aurantium
Common Name: Citradia
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hybrid between the Sour Orange and the Trifoliate Orange has great vigor and very nice foliage ...

Citrus (X Citrus) Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus sinensis 'Rusk'
Common Name: Citrange 'Rusk'
'Rusk' is a Ruby orange x trifoliata hybrid dating back to 1897 and therefore one of the first Citranges. The tree is vigorous, tall-growing, and quite hardy. It is evergreen to semi-evergreen and dense with trifoliate leaves. The fruit is deep or...

Cladrastis kentukea
Common Name: American Yellowwood
Large wide spreading deciduous tree with compound leaves and pendulous terminal panicles of white flowers which are fragrant and typical for pea family. Gray smooth bark and good yellow fall foliage color. A splendid ornamental tree that will grow on...

Clematis armandii
Common Name: Clematis, Armand

Armand Clematis is a beautiful vigorous evergreen vine with large and glossy dark green leaves.  It produces abundant clusters of small white flowers in early spring.  The flowers are quite fragrant but it  is worth ...


Clematis crispa
Common Name: Marsh or Curly Clematis
This little native Clematis has solitary blue-purple flowers 1-2 inches long with recurved leathery petals. A widely spreading vine which climbs by twining petioles. A charming little Clematis for the small garden. Native to southern U.S....

Clematis maximowicziana (C. paniculata)
Common Name: Sweet Autumn Clematis
This Asian native is one of the easiest Clematis to grow. It is naturalized in much of eastern U.S. and is favored for the abundant sprays of white fragrant flowers which appear in fall. Plant in semi-shaded spot in good soil with trellis to climb on...

Clematis montevidiensis (#1)
Common Name: Bejuco
A vigorous deciduous vine with toothed compound leaves and showy clusters of small greenish white flowers followed by attractive cottony seed heads. Use in area isolated by lawn or pavement to prevent unwanted spreading into beds or borders. A Woodl...

Clematis morefieldii
Common Name: Morefield's Leather Flower
Delicate climber found in limited area in northern Alabama. It is on the federal endangerd species list and therefore prohibited in interstate commerce. Plant is somewhat downy with whitish hairs on plant and on the pinkish flowers. It is native to...

Clematis texensis
Common Name: Red Texas Clematis
Texas Clematis is a much-sought-after species that is rarely available. It is an herbaceous perennial vine with blue-green foliage and bright red flowers in summer and fall. The flowers are like little red "leather" bells. Plant in sun or semi-shad...

Clematis versicolor
Common Name: Purple Leatherleaf Clematis
Perennial vine with bell-shaped lavender to purple flowers. An uncommon but very attractive native Clematis that is ideal for a small garden trellis or fence. Native from Tennessee and Kentucky west to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma....

Clerodendron x speciosa
Common Name:
Clerodendron x speciosa (thomsoniae x splendens) is a showy vine which climbs by twining. It is a hybrid between Clerodendron thomsoniae, the "Bleeding Heart Vine" and C. splendens. This showy climber is much like the former except flowers are with...

Clerodendrum bungei
Common Name: Rose Glorybower
Suckering shrub with usually unbranched stems. Relatively large heart-shaped leaves and large flat terminal clusters of fragrant rosy pink flowers. May freeze to the ground in cold weather but easily root hardy where ground does not freeze. Forms ...

Clerodendrum fragrans
Common Name: Glorybower
Clerodendrum fragrans (philippinum) (chinensis) is a stoloniferous shrub (sometimes perennial) to about 3 feet (may become larger in frost-free zones). Stems usually unbranched. Large heart-shaped leaves and tight rounded terminal clusters of shell ...

Clerodendrum indicum
Common Name: Turk's Turban
Tall perennial with tyically unbranched leafy stems with long narrowly elliptic leaves. Stems are topped with long cluster of showy tubular white flowers which are followed by black berries. This is a striking plant but it can be invasive if allowe...

Clerodendrum nutans
Common Name:
Clerodendrum nutans (C. wallichii) is a shrub to 7+ feet in frost-free climates, or perennial in zone 8. Wand-like basal branches, leaves are glossy and leathery dark green, strongly veined and almost 1 foot long. White showy flowers with coral ant...

Clerodendrum trichotomum
Common Name: Harlequin Glorybower
Large decidous shrub or small tree that forms thickets from root suckers unless planted in open area that is kept mowed. It is the hardiest of the Clerodendrons and a very attractive landscape plant in the right spot. It has heart-shaped leaves and...

Clerodendrum ugandense
Common Name: Uganda Glorybower
A sprawling shrub that is a herbaceous perennial in warm areas that are not frost free. Dark green oval 5" leaves. Orchid-like purple flowers. Sometimes called butterflybush but so are other things. Plant in rich soil in semi-shade and give adequ...

Clethra alnifolia 'Anne Bidwell'
Common Name: Clethra 'Anne Bidwell'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice'
Common Name: Pink Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...

Clethra alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles'
Common Name: Clethra 'Sixteen Candles'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...

Clethra barbinervis
Common Name: Japanese Clethra
A tall tree-like deciduous Clethra with somewhat fragrant terminal racemes of white flowers in summer but best known for it's smooth polished grey to brown and exfoliating bark. A great plant for the winter garden where the bark can be the most beaut...

Clethra fargesii
Common Name: Chinese Clethra
Similar to Clethra barbinervis (which see) but not so tall. Leaves dark glossy green and widest in the middle. 5-7 inch long racemose panicles of fragrant white flowers. Plant in semi-shade. Native to China....

Clethra pringlei
Common Name: Mexican Clethra
This large evergreen shrub or small tree has long racemes of cinnamon scented white flowers in summer. Leaves are elliptic and toothed toward the terminal end. This is a relatively new introduction from Mexico by the folks at Yucca-Do Nursery in Texa...

Clethra tomentosa 'Cottondale'
Common Name: Clethra 'Cottondale'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...

Clethra tomentosa 'Woodlander's Sarah'
Common Name: Clethra 'Sarah'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...

Cleyera fortunei
Common Name: Variegated Cleyera
This evergreen shrub related to Camellia and the species is known only in the variegated form cultivated in Japan. The narrow leaves have a white margin. Grow in well-drained fertile soil with ample moisture. Sun or semi-shade. This is a true Cleye...

Cliftonia monophylla
Common Name: Buckwheat Tree
Evergreen shrub or tree with small glossy leathery leaves. Can become much larger than size given in suitable natural habitat. Found along streams and in acid bogs in the lower southeastern coastal plains. This is a fine evergreen with early white f...

Cliftonia monophylla 'Berry Pink'
Common Name: Pink Buckwheat Tree
Like Cliftonia monophylla (which see) but a very attractive pink flowered selection of this normally white flowered plant. Selected in the Florida Panhandle by Jim Berry for whom we named this clone. Cliftonia is a monotypic genus native to the sout...

Clinopodium coccineum
Common Name: Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha)coccineum is an aromatic evergreen shrub with small leaves. Loose open growth habit. Very showy tubular red flowers in summer. Attractive to hummingbirds. Occurs only on deep, well-drained sands. Plant in full sun...

Clinopodium georgianum
Common Name: Georgia Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum is a semi-evergreen mint shrub. Highly aromatic foliage. Abundant pinkish flowers in late summer. A good border plant for sunny or semi-shady spots with good drainage. Will grow in heavier soils than most of its rela...

Clinopodium georgianum hybrid 'Desi Arnez'
Common Name: Clinopodium Hybrid
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum hybrid is a now popular plant is a chance hybrid of uncertain parentage that was introduced by Woodlanders. It occurred here in the garden of Robert Mackintosh. It is possibly a Clinopodium georgianum x Conradina sp...

Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Flowered Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow' is a contradictory common name, but this is a clear bright yellow flowered selection of a usually red flowered mint shrub Clinopodium coccineum. This yellow form was originally shared wi...

Clytostoma callistegioides
Common Name: Argentine Purple Trumpet Vine
This is a vigorous evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine. Glossy leaves and 5" long purple trumpet flowers in spring. Climbs by tendrils. Relatively care free in warm climates but needs water in prolonged dry periods. A handsome and free ...

Cocculus laurifolius
Common Name: Laureleaf Snailseed
This is a somewhat viney shrub grown in warm climates chiefly for its beautiful glossy polished leaves with three prominent parlallel veins. Worthy of protected spot in zone 9 or even 8. Makes a good espalier plant on a sheltered wall. Native to tr...

Colocasia antiquorum 'Illustris'
Common Name: Imperial Taro
This large tropical "Elephant Ear" is also listed as Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris'. It is perennial in most of the South. The vivid green leaves are atriking being splashed with deep brownish purple color. Colocasias are true wate...

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'
Common Name: Black Elephant Ear
Sometimes called 'Jet Black Wonder', the striking purple-black leaves of this Taro have created a sensation over the past few years. In proper soil this plant can grow to 5 or 6 feet. A sure fire attention grabber! Cut back plants after the frost k...

Colocasia esculenta 'Burgundy Stem'
Common Name: Violet Stem Taro
A bold foliage "Elephant Ear" similar Colocasia fontanesii but with stems a more raspberry color and a waxy bluish cast to leaves which causes water droplets to bead up. Gets big and spreads in rich moist soil. Cut back plants after the frost kills ...

Colocasia esculenta 'Chicago Harlequin'
Common Name: Stripe Stem Elephant Ear
A relatively new and possibly somewhat more hardy "Elephant Ear" selected by John Joicus at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It is a very aquatic plant which spreads by rhizomatous runners. Leaves are blotched light and darker green, but the stems ar...

Colquhounia coccinea
Common Name: Himalayan Mint Shrub
A showy shrub with simple medium size leaves that are downy and rather rough. Produces spikes of reddish or scarlet flowers in summer or fall. Plant in sunny, well-drained site with good soil. Can be trained against a wall. Colquhoun is a Scottish ...

Condalia buxifolia
Common Name: Boxleaf Condalia
This is an attractive medium-sized shrub or small tree with small evergreen leaves the size of boxwood leaves. Small black berries follow inconspicuous flowers. Many slender weak thorns along branches. Plant in a sunny, well-drained, site. Slow gro...

Conradina canescens
Common Name: Gray Conradina
Conradinas are dense aromatic low shrubs in the mint family with small, usually linear green or gray leaves, and small pale purple flowers. There are 6 or possibly 7 species in the southern U.S., primarily in Florida where they grow on sand or very ...

Conradina etonia
Common Name: Etonia Rosemary
This is a federally listed endangered species. NOT FOR SALE IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. It is a new species discovered by Bob McCartney in Putnam County, Florida in 1990 and introduced by Woodlanders. Medium mint family shrub larger than most other Con...

Conradina glabra
Common Name: Apalachicola Rosemary
Smooth aromatic shrub with soft green needle like leaves and pale white flowers. This endangered species native to deep sandy soil on bluffs and ravines near Apalachicola River in northwest Florida. Grow in sandy well-drained soil with minimal comp...

Conradina sp.
Common Name: Styx River Rosemary

Some years ago we introduced two selections of Conradina collected on Styx River in southern Alabama.  We called these "Low Gray" and "Low Green" and hope these clones may still be in cultivation somewhere.  In re-visitin...


Conradina verticillata
Common Name: Cumberland Rosemary
Federally listed THREATENED species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Low trailing evergreen shrub with aromatic Rosemary-like leaves. Other Conradina species are native to Florida and Gulf Coast of Alabama. This one is native to limited are...

Coreopsis rosea
Common Name: Pink Coreopsis
Clump or colony-forming perennial with grass-like foliage and pretty pink flowers like small pink daisies held on slender stems well above foliage. An uncommon native perennial usually found in wet soils but adaptable to sunny garden conditions with...

Coreopsis verticillata
Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
Clump forming native perenennial with thread-like leaflets and abundant yellow to orange daisy like flowers over long period in summer. A popular garden perennial for the sunny border is good, well-drained soil....

Cornus amomum
Common Name: Silky Dogwood
Silky Dogwood is a medium sized deciduous shrub with flat topped clusters of white flowers followed by showy blue berries attractive to birds. The flower clusters are unlike the common Flowering Dogwood and more like a Viburnum flower. It normally o...

Cornus drummondii
Common Name: Roughleaf Dogwood
This is a deciduous shrub to small tree that is sometimes colonial. Creamy clusters of small flowers followed by white fruit enjoyed by birds. It is a plant naturally found on wet soils but is adaptable to garden conditions in sun or partial shade. ...

Cornus florida 'Welch's Junior Miss'
Common Name: Pink Dogwood 'Junior Miss'
Cornus florida is the very familiar Flowering Dogwood native to eastern North America. A common deciduous woodland understory tree it is widely planted for the showy white flowers (actually bracts) in spring. Many cultivars including pink-flowered ...

Cornus florida 'Bay Beauty'
Common Name: Welch's Bay Beauty Double flowered Dogwood
...

Cornus florida 'Plena'
Common Name: Double Flowering Dogwood

This variety of the common Flowering Dogwood is and old cultivar noted for the doubled number of white (flower) bracts giving it the alternative name of Cornus florida pluribracteata.  It's culture is the same as...


Cornus florida 'Augusta Giant'
Common Name: Flowering Dogwood

The familiar Flowering Dogwood is a small to medium size deciduous tree with showy white bracted flowers in spring.  There are many cultivars selected for various attributes.  This selection is propagated from a tree...


Cornus florida 'Interstate'
Common Name: Variegated Flowering Dogwood

This beautifully variegated Flowering Dogwood is an exceptional Woodlanders new introduction.  The foliage is strongly marked with white-margined variegation.  It was found in the woods near Interstate 64 in Jam...


Cornus kousa var. chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Dogwood

Spreading deciduous small to medium size tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. Flowers about a month later than our native Cornus florida and is apparent...


Cornus omeiensis 'Summer Passion'
Common Name: Mt Omei Dogwood
This bushy small tree is evergreen or semi-evergreen and has the showy white pointed bracts which subtend the true flowers in the Asian flowering dogwoods. New growth is an attractive bronze color. It is from Sichuan Province, China and was introdu...

Corylopsis spicata
Common Name: Spike Winterhazel
This is a deciduous, wide spreading shrub with rounded light green leaves smaller than some other species of Corylopsis. It is valued for it's conspicuous late winter, early spring drooping spikes of bright yellow flowers appearing before the leaves...

Cotinus coggygria x C. obovatus 'Grace'
Common Name: Smoketree 'Grace' Hybrid
A large shrub or small tree that is a hybrid between the American and European Cotinus species. This cross was made in 1978 by Peter Dummer at Hillier Nursery in England. Massive pink flower panicles followed by seed panicles giving the "smoke" effe...

Cotinus obovatus
Common Name: American Smoke Tree

Our native smoketree is an uncommon small to medium deciduous tree.  It suggests the appearance of smoke when in fruit. It has broad oval leaves which are larger than the more commonly grown European Smoketree (...


Crataegus aestivalis
Common Name: Mayhaw
A small rather thorny deciduous tree with small leaves. Abundant white flowers in very early spring are followed by attractive cranberry size red fruits in May. These fruits yield the Deep South's famous Mayhaw jelly. Mayhaw typically grows in low...

Crataegus flava
Common Name: Yellow Hawthorn
Small rather thorny deciduous tree with white flowers in spring followed by yellow to red fruits. Hawthorns are a very difficult group to classify and the name Crataegus flava may be an invalid catch-all for severl similar and closely related Hawtho...

Crataegus harbisonii
Common Name: Harbison Hawthorn
Small thorny deciduous tree with relatively large leaves for a hawthorn. White flowers and red fruit. This is an extremely rare native plant which was perhaps once fairly common in the central Tennessee area but now virtually extinct in the wild. ...

Crataegus marshallii
Common Name: Parsley-leaved Hawthorn
A distinctive and attractive small tree with shiny green dissected parsley-like leaves. White flowers with red stamens in spring followed by red fruit. Native to Piedmont and Coastal Plain of southeastern U.S. on moist sites. One of the easiest Haw...

Crataegus phaenopyrum
Common Name: Washington Hawthorn
This small thory deciduous tree is perhaps the most widely grown native hawthorn. It is favored for it's form, dark green foliage, white flowers and bright red berries. Most nurseries offer selections from northern stock not suitable for the Deep Sou...

Crataegus spathulata
Common Name: Littlehip Hawthorn
As and ornamental this Haw should be a very desirable small deciduous tree. It has small leaves, white flowers, small red fruits, and is noteworthy for attractive exfoliating bark. Plant in sun or semi-shade in good well-drained soil. Native to sou...

Crataegus virdis
Common Name: Green Hawthorn
Crataegus virdis is a rounded, thorny, spreading dense tree with lustrous medium green foliage in summer and can change to purple or scarlet in the fall. Spring flowers are white bourne in two inch diameter corymbs. Persistant fruits are bright red...

Crinum americanum
Common Name: Swamp Lily
Native Crinum Lily with broad strap-like leaves and 4-5 inch wide glistening white star-shaped flowers on taller scapes. Spreads in rich moist soil in sun or semi-shade. Plants offered may actually be Crinum erubescens from South America as Scott O...

Crocosmia masonorum x paniculatus 'Lucifer'
Common Name: Montbretia
This is a perennial from a bulb or corm and a great plant for southern gardens multiplying well in good moist neutral or acid soil in sun or semi-shade. Showy spikes of orange-red flowers over long period in spring and summer. Grass-like flattened l...

Cryptomeria japonica
Common Name: Japanese Cedar
A tall, pyramidal or conical, evergreen coniferous tree. Blue-green apressed needles -may develop bronzy or purple-bronze winter color in cold climates. Reddish-brown bark exfoliates. An important timber tree in Japan where it reaches 100' +. Pla...

Cunninghamia lanceolata
Common Name: Chinafir
Large, pyramidal, often multi-trunked coniferous evergreen tree with rather long flattened needles in more or less two dimensional arrangement on twigs. Interesting small cones. An attrative and somewhat curious conifer long planted in the South an...

Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'
Common Name: Blue Chinafir
Silvery Blue needled form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see). Otherwise similar....

Cunninghamia lanceolata (dwarf)
Common Name: Dwarf Chinafir
A friend in the Atlanta area shared this with us some years ago. It is a more compact dark green form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see) with shorter needles. It may even be a form of the related Taiwanese species, Cunninghamia konishii. We are...

Cycas revoluta
Common Name: Sago Palm

Sago Palm is not a palm.  Cycads are palm-like primitive plants more related to the ferns.  The Sago Palm is native to Japan and is a favorite and very noticible landscape plant in the Deep South, U.S.   It...


Cycas revoluta x taitungensis
Common Name: Hybrid Sago Palm

This plant is a hybrid between the Japanese Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta) and the Taiwan Sago (Cycas taitungensis).  It should be intermediate between the parents.  Cycas taitungensis has longer le...


Cyrilla arida
Common Name: Scrub Titi
Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered by J.K. Small in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we rediscovered, after much searching, a tiny population on a very xeric s...

Cyrilla racemiflora
Common Name: Leatherwood
Titi is an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree found in damp to wet acid soil from southern Virginia to the Gulf Coast. It is summer blooming with showy white racemes of tiny flowers at the ends of the branches. Though found on wet site...

Cyrilla racemiflora 'Graniteville'
Common Name: Leatherwood
A low growing selection of Cyrilla racemiflora (which see). This Woodlanders introduction is from an almost prostrate plant we found and propagated some years ago. We found it on a sandhills seepage slope near Graniteville, South Carolina....

Cyrtomium falcatum 'Rochfordianum'
Common Name: Rochford's Holly Fern
Evergreen Old World fern with dark, leathery leaflets suggesting holly leaves. An attractive coarse fern well-suited to moist shady spots in the garden or against walls. A favorite in many Deep South gardens....

Danae racemosa
Common Name: Poet's Laurel or Alexandrian Laurel
A choice low shrub for shade. Related to Asparagus! Shiny green lance-shaped "leaves" are really modified stems. Red berries in fall. Occasional in old southern gardens but very slow to propagate hence not readily availabe. Native to Asia Minor ...

Daphne odora
Common Name: Winter Daphne
Once planted do not prune or move. One of the great favorite southern garden plants but can break your heart by dropping dead for seemingly no good reason. (Usually root rot so very good drainage a must). Very fragrant flowers in late winter. Thi...

Daphne odora 'Alba'
Common Name: White Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne or February Daphne is a delightful evergreen shrub with deliciously scented pink or white flowers in late winter. It is native to China and Japan and long a beloved plant in southern gardens. It should be planted in semi-shade in very...

Daphne odora 'Aureo-marginata'
Common Name: Yellow Edge Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne or February Daphne is a delightful evergreen shrub with deliciously scented pink or white flowers in late winter. It is native to China and Japan and long a beloved plant in southern gardens. It should be planted in semi-shade in very...

Daphne odora 'Aureo-marginata Alba'
Common Name: White Winter Daphne Variety
Variegated, yellow leaf margin. White fragrant flowers in spring. Semi-shade & well-drained soil. (See DIR)...

Daphniphyllum humile
Common Name:
Large Rhododendron-like (but not related) evergreen shrub with lustrous foliage. Flowers not conspicuous but a choice evergreen shrub for the moist semi-shady garden. Probably first offered in the U.S. by Woodlanders. Native to Japan....

Decumaria barbara
Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea
This is a choice native vine with glossy deciduous leaves & flat white clusters of flowers resembling the related Hydrangea. It is best displayed on low wall or fence as in nature it usually climbs high into trees and blooms unseen in the canopy. It...

Dendropanax trifidus
Common Name: Ivy Tree
A most unusual small dense evergreen tree with ivy-like leaves that has grown in our garden for years. This Japanese native is indeed related to ivy and bears similar flower and fruit clusters. Not at all well known in America and possibly first of...

Deutzia sp. (98FB328)
Common Name: Deutzia
One of perhaps 70 species (and many hybrids) of this popular and easily grown deciduous shrub with white to pink showy flowers. This one (seed) collected by Frank Bell on Emeishan, Sichuan, China. Try it!...

Dianella tasmanica variegata
Common Name: Flax Lilly
Strap leaf perennial with nice variegated foliage and small star-shaped bright blue to purple flowers which are followed by glossy, deep blue berries. Plant in sun to partial shade. Native to Tasmania....

Dichroa versicolor
Common Name: Evergreen Hydrangea
Evergreen shrub related to and resembling Hydrangea with similar flat terminal clusters of small blue flowers in late summer and fall. This, and the more widely available Dichroa febrifuga are native to China and are relatively recent introductions ...

Diospyros cathayensis
Common Name: Evergreen Persimmon

This persimmon is an evergreen (or nearly so) medium size tree from southern China.  This relatively recent introduction is almost unknown in the U.S. and had not been much tested.  We obtained it as cuttings from To...


Diospyros texana
Common Name: Texas Persimmon

Texas Persimmon is a small semi-evergreen tree with small dark green leaves. This intricately branched tree has bark that exfoliates to reveal smooth white, gray, to pink colors. The edible but seedy fruit produced on female trees ...


Diospyros virginiana
Common Name: Common Persimmon
Medium size deciduous tree pyramidal to oval-rounded in outline. Dark green leaves, gray-black checkered bark. Male & female flowers (not showy) are on separate trees. Edible orange 1-2 inch fruit produced on female trees. Persimmon is tolerant of ...

Disporum sessile 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Fairy-Bells
Attractive woodland perennial with leaves like Solomon's Seal but with white variegation. Flowers solitary or in twos or threes. A horticultural selection of a Japanese native. ...

Distylium myricoides (Piroche form)
Common Name: Isu Tree Cultivar
This very different form of Distylum racemosum is called 'Lucky Charm Witchhazel'. This evergreen shrub has leaves which are blue-green. Leaf arrangement and branching are quite horizontal. Probably remains a relatively low shrub. It has small br...

Distylium racemosum
Common Name: Isu Tree
This unusual small tree is a member of Witchhazel Family. Glossy evergreen leaves. Small red flowers in spring. Fine-grained wood used to make furniture & crafts in Japan where it apparently becomes a sizeable tree. According to Dirr's Manual of W...

Dryopteris celsa
Common Name: Log Fern
This large growing fern is an uncommon native to swamps in the southern U.S. It has bold evergreen fronds. This rare fern is a great garden plant for rich moist soil in shady or semi-shady sites. ...

Dryopteris cycadina
Common Name: Shaggy Woodfern
Dryopteris cycadina (D. atrata) is an easy-to-grow evergreen garden fern. The stiff leathery pinnate fronds make a good show in the shady or semi-shady woodland garden or along the shady side of a wall or building. ....

Dryopteris erythrosora
Common Name: Autumn Fern
A medium to large evergreen fern with broad somewhat triangular fronds. The new growth is copper colored. This Asian fern is a handsome and dependable fern for the shady or semi-shady garden. ...

Dryopteris ludoviciana
Common Name: Florida Shield Fern
A great evergreen fern with glossy and bold upright fronds. Probably a Woodlanders introduction. It was first publicized in Southern Living Magazine and is now becoming more widely available. Do not plant in full sun. Give these ferns a moist soi...

Dryopteris x australis
Common Name: Dixie Wood Fern
Evergreen. This large and impressive natural hybrid (Dryopteris celsa x ludoviciana) gets taller than either parent! A bold fern for spacious spots in the shady or semi-shady garden....

Duranta serratifolia
Common Name: Tala Blanco
Related to Duranta repens, the "Skyflower" or "Golden Dewdrop" sometimes seen in Florida gardens. This species is a shrub which can become scandant or vine-like or can become a small tree. Deciduous with leaves turning purple in fall. Light blue fl...

Dyschoriste oblongifolia
Common Name: Twin Flower
Low-growing perennial with small leaves on erect stems and nice blue flowers. Forms dense patches in dryish, sandy soil. Selected from the wild in north Florida. A Woodlanders introduction....

Echinacea paradoxa
Common Name: Yellow Coneflower

Echinacea paradoxa is a coneflower paradox because, unlike other coneflowers, it has yellow flowers.  This Ozark Mountains native is found in open rocky places and prairie habitats.  Grow in well-draine...


Echinacea simulata
Common Name: Wavyleaf Coneflower

Echinacea simulata leaves are alternate, entire, mostly basal and can reach 8 inches in length.
The pinkish-purple flowers first appear in late spring and continue into mid summer. The rays are strongly reflexed and up to 3 in...


Edgeworthia chrysantha
Common Name: Paper Bush
Medium size deciduous coarse shrub with simple leaves 6-8 inches long of a blueish color. This suckering shrub related to Daphne and Dirca produces clusters of interesting flowers on ends of naked stems in early spring. IT has somewhat of a tropical...

Ehretia anacua
Common Name: Knockaway Tree
Semi-evergreen tree with dark green oval leaves which are very rough on upper surface giving it another common name, Sandpaper Tree. Small white fragrant frowers in 2-3 inch long panicles. Edible fruit yellowish orange, sweet and juicy eaten by bird...

Elaeagnus pungens 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Autumn Olive
Autumn Olive is a servicable evergreen shrub with very fragrant but relatively inconspicuous flowers in the fall. This is a handsome cultivar with gold edged leaves. Autumn Olive is a large shrub but can become vine-like if allowed to scramble up in...

Elettaria cardamomum
Common Name: Cardamom
A ginger here producing attractive foliage from rhizomes. Here it is under 2 feet, but much larger in tropics, where it is grown for spice. Leaves have a delightful fragrance when brushed. Like most ginger relatives this plant likes fertile soil wi...

Enkianthus campanulatus 'Rubrum'
Common Name: Red Enkianthus
Narrow upright shtub or small tree. Layered branches. Sun to part shade(South) and moist acid soil. Related to blueberries and azaleas and grown under similar condiditons. Native to Japan. Small bell-like red flowers and good red fall color char...

Epimedium x versicolor (E. grandiflorum x pinnatum) 'Sulphureum'
Common Name: Yellow Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in all ...

Epimedium x youngianum (E. diphyllum x grandiflorum) 'Niveum'
Common Name: White Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established. They are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This deciduous Epimedium has white flowers....

Epimedium x youngianum (E. diphyllum x grandiflorum) 'Roseum'
Common Name: Pink Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This deciduous cultivar has rose to pinkish lilac flowe...

Erythrina crista-galli
Common Name: Cockspur Coraltree
The Argentine national flower. Spectacular red to orange flowers and rather large trifoliate leaves. Prickles on stems. Large tree in frost-free areas. Perennial in zone 8, a large shrub or small tree in zone 9. Plant in sunny spot in well-drain...

Erythrina herbacea
Common Name: Coralbean
Woody shrub in frost-free climates, otherwise perennial from massive root. Very showy tubular flowers in spikes followed by decorative (but poisonous) red seeds which remain on plant in open pods. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Moun...

Erythrina herbacea alba 'De Soto'
Common Name: White-flowered Coral Bean
An extremely rare white-flowered form of normally red-flowered Erythrina herbacea (which see) that was introduced by Woodlanders some years ago. Now again available. Propagated from a single wild plant that was found on an island near Tampa, Florid...

Erythrina herbacea var. arborea
Common Name: Coralbean

Botanically this may be no different than standard Erythrina herbacea (which see) but plants in very mild winter areas do not die back in winter and can become almost tree-like.  These have been referred to as "variet...


Erythrina x bidwillii
Common Name: Coralbean Hybrid
This very showy Coralbean is a hybrid between the Argentine E. crista-galli and our native E. herbacea. Perennial in zone 8 from large root stock. Large spikes of vivid red flowers in summer. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10...

Eucomis comosa
Common Name: Pineapple Lily
South African perennial from large bulb. Strap shaped leaves and 2-3 foot tall spike with flower arrangement suggesting a pineapple. A great perennial for the garden bed or border in sun or light shade. May not be winter hardy above Zone 7....

Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy'
Common Name: Pineapple Lily Cultivar
The burgundy-red, semi-erect rosette of strapping, waxy leaves of this bulb appear more green as the weather warms. Densely set starry flowers envelope thick, cylindrical maroon spikes in summer. Plant in a warm sunny nook with mulched well-drained ...

Euonymus americanus
Common Name: Hearts Abustin
Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with lanceolate 3" long leaves oposite on upright green stems. This woodland shrub native to eastern North America is a fine garden plant for shade or semi-shade and is favored for the scarlet seed capsules which op...

Euonymus chibae
Common Name: Hizen-mayumi (Japan)
Euonymus chibae is a small to medium size evergreen tree with typical yellow-green Euonymus flowers and red fruits in capsules that split open. This tree which is rare in cultivation was received some years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum. Prob...

Euonymus fortunei 'Wolong Ghost'
Common Name: Wolong Ghost Creeping Euonymus

This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China.  It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a...


Euonymus sp.
Common Name:

This yet to be identified Euonymus is probably E. fortunei.  It is a low trailing evergreen shrub with long-pointed, toothed, leaves about 2 inches long.  A new introduction, it was collected by Frank Bell o...


Exbucklandia populnea
Common Name:
Rare evergreen tree with large leaves resembling those of the unrelated Liriodendron. It is a member of the witchhazel family. Flowers are not showy. Grow for foliage. Little known in cultivation. Native to China...

Exochorda racemosa
Common Name: Pearlbush
Somewhat irregular to upright deciduous shrub with slender branches and abundant showy white flowers very early in spring. Sure to attract attention when in flower. Does very well in the South where it is a dependable spring herald. Tolerant of va...

Fagus grandifolia
Common Name: American Beech
American Beech is a large imposing deciduous tree widespread in rich woodlands in eastern North America. It has toothed oval leaves several inches long which are bright green turning yellow in fall, then brown, and remaining on tree through the wint...

Fatshedera lizei
Common Name: Ivy Tree
This curious bi-generic hybrid between a shrub (Fatsia) and a vine (Ivy) is an evergreen plant that can be trained up a fence or wall. It is a semi-climbing evergreen shrub with large palmate leaves. Ivy-like flowers in fall but grown chiefly for t...

Fatsia japonica 'Variegata'
Common Name: Japanese Fatsia Cultivar
Tropical-looking shrub with large evergreen leaves and branched spikes of greenish white flowers in fall. A well known textural plant for moist sites with good soil and shade or semi-shade. This variety has leaves edged and splashed with white. Nat...

Feijoa sellowiana
Common Name: Pineapple Guava
Pineapple Guava is an evergreen shrub with gray-green foliage, showy red flowers and tasty fruit. It is tolerant of dry soil and seashore conditions. It is native to Uruguay but widely grown in warm regions including the southern U.S. and California...

Ficus carica 'Petite Negra'
Common Name: Petite Negra Fig

Ficus carica is the common edible fig which has been cultivated since ancient times.  It is a coarse branched deciduous shrub or small tree with lobed "fig leaves" and fleshy tasty fruit that is eaten fresh, cooked, dried, or ...


Ficus heterophylla
Common Name:

We are identifying this little-known fig as Ficus heterophylla thanks to Tony Avent at Plant Delights who was probably the source for the cuttings we originally started with.  It is a rather scandent shrub with long a...


Ficus nipponicum
Common Name: Creeping Fig
This evergreen fig vine native to Japan has larger more pointed leaves than the common fig vine (Ficus pumila) which is commonly grown in the southern U.S. This rare species likewise produces "holdfasts" which allow it to climbs walls and rough maso...

Ficus pumila x carica
Common Name: Climbing Fig Hybrid

A curious hybrid between the climbing fig (vine) and the edible fig (shrub) which is intermediate between the very different parents. This mostly deciduous and semi-vining shrub is grown mostly as a botanical or garden curiosity.&n...


Ficus pumila x carica ''Ruth Bancroft''
Common Name: Hybrid Fig

A curious hybrid between the climbing fig (vine) and the edible fig (shrub) which is intermediate between the very different parents. This mostly deciduous and semi-vining shrub is grown mostly as a botanical or garden curiosity.&n...


Ficus roxburghii
Common Name: Roxburgh Fig
Ficus roxburghii (auriculata) is a great spreading woody shrub in frost-free climates and a big bold perennial in zone 8. It is native to India. The very large 15" rounded glossy leaves create a dramatic tropical effect. It has proven root hardy fo...

Ficus vaccinoides
Common Name: Blueberry Leaf Fig
A neat groundcover or vine with small shiny evergreengreen leaves similar to a (totally unrelated) evergreen blueberry. This choice little vine is native to Taiwan and probably came to us from the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at NC State which got it fro...

Fokienia hodginsii
Common Name: Fokienia

Fokienia is a rare evergreen conifer intermediate between Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus.  It has flattened sprays of attractive foliage suggesting Thuja or Arborvitae.  It is native to southern China and Viet Nam.  Th...


Forestiera godfreyi
Common Name: Godfrey's Swampprivet

Godfrey's Forestiera is a deciduous shrub or small tree. The ovate leaves have pubescent lower surface and yellow fuzzy flowers appear in early spring on last season's twigs.  Female plants may bear small dark blue berries. Th...


Forestiera neomexicana
Common Name: Desert Olive

Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub with gray-green small leaves and tiny yellow flowers along the stems before the leaves emerge.  It is native to the western U.S. but is adaptable to higher rainfall areas when planted in ...


Forestiera segregata
Common Name: Florida Privet
A large evergreen shrub or small tree native to coastal hammocks in the southeastern U.S. Although only distantly related to "Privet" (Ligustrum) it is often used in Florida landscapes to replace Privet as it can be sheared as a hedge. Tolerant of l...

Fortunella hindsii
Common Name: Hong Kong Kumquat
Evergreen shrub with smallest fruits of true citris. A great plant for containers or smaller space. Chinese preserve the colorful orange fruits for spicy flavoring but grown chiefly as a novelty ornamental. Hardy outoors here in Aiken, SC but not ...

Fothergilla gardenii 'Blue Mist'
Common Name: Witch Alder Cultivar

Fothergilla gardenii is typically a small deciduous shrub 3 to 4 feet tall.  It is related to Witchhazel and occurs in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S.  It is found in moist peaty habitats but is adaptable ...


Fothergilla major
Common Name: Large Fothergilla
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This species is native to the southern Appalachians where it is uncommon and local. It is a large deciduous shrub wi...

Fothergilla major 'Mt Airy'
Common Name: Large Fothergilla Cultivar
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This selection found by Dr. Mike Dirr in Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, OH is now widely grown and available. It ...

Fragaria virginiana
Common Name: Wild Strawberry
The native wild strawberry of eastern North America. The plants have trifolate leaves and produce runners which form new plants at the ends. White flowers are followed by small but sweet tasty strawberries once commonly enjoyed by country children ...

Franklinia alatamaha
Common Name: Lost Franklinia
An almost legendary Camellia relative discovered in one spot in Georgia and introduced and named by John and William Bartram in 1770 but not seen again in the wild since 1790 or maybe 1804. Many have searched unsuccessfully for it and all plants in c...

Fraxinus profunda
Common Name: Pumpkin Ash

Pumpkin Ash is a relatively uncommon tree of widely scattered distribution in bottomland and floodplain forests of eastern, midwestern and southern U.S.  It is an attractive tree with dark green lustrous pinnate...


Fuchsia boliviana
Common Name:
A shrub with bright red tubular flowers in pendulous clusters, this Fuchsia is from a subtropical rainforest region in Tucuman Province in Argentina. This Woodlanders introduction was hoped to be much more heat tolerant than the more commonly-grown ...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Chuck Hayes'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
Evergreen shrub with fairly large glossy leaves and 3 inch double white flowers, the standard extremely fragrant Gardenia flower. Gardenia is a long time garden favorite throughout the South. This variety from the late Virginia Beach, VA nurseryman ...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Gardenia
This Gardenia is a large shrub essentially like the common Gardenia with glossy evergreen leaves and very fragrant white flowers but the flowers on this one soon change to deep yellow. We obtained this plant from a garden in central South Carolina b...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Rosedown Star'
Common Name: Single-flowered Gardenia
Gardenia 'Rosedown Star' is an evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and fragrant single star-like white flowers followed by showy orange fruits (hips). We obtained this plant years ago from the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, Georgia whos...

Gardenia sp. 'Kleim's Hardy'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
Small evergreen shrub with lustrous black-green leaves and fragrant ivory single 2 inch blooms. This little Gardenia has become popular in recent years after claims that it was untouched at 3 degrees F in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Dirr questions it being th...

Gardenia sp. 'Variegata'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
This striking rather upright Gardenia is a Woodlanders'introduction that has become more widely available. We received this plant many years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland after they had found it in Japan. Leaves have strong yellow variegat...

Gardenia sp. 'Daruma'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
A small tight evergreen shrub similar to Gardenia 'Klein's Hardy' but with small dark green leathery leaves that are quite rounded and with small single fragrant flowers. Gardenias grow well in relatively fertile acid soil in semi-shade and are long ...

Gardenia sp. (from China)
Common Name:
A Woodlanders introduction, this Gardenia was grown from seed collected by Frank Bell on Emei Shan, China's sacred mountain in Sichuan. It is a vigorous, single stem upright plant with very glossy dark green leaves that are long and narrow. Single w...

Gelsemium rankinii
Common Name: Swamp Jessamine
Evergreen vine closely related to Gelsemium sempervirens (Which see). This rare species is found in wet habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is floriferous and flowers both in spring and fall but the yellow trumpet shaped flower...

Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pale Yellow'
Common Name: Carolina Jessamine 'Pale Yellow'
Variation in Gelsemium sempervirens is rare This pale yellow-flowered selection found by Chris Early in northwestern Florida makes this Woodlanders introduction distinctive. Otherwise as species. Gelsemium sempervirens is the state flower of South...

Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pride of Augusta'
Common Name: Double Jessamine (Cultivar)
Evergreen twining vine with bright yellow fragrant flowers in spring. This species produces few variants but this selection with double flowers was probably introduced many years ago by the famous but now defunct Fruitland Nursery of Augusta, Georgi...

Gelsemium sempervirens (hardy) 'Margarita'
Common Name: Carolina Jessamine
Evergreen vine with fragrant yellow flowers. This selection from northern Georgia was named 'Margarita' by Gene Cline a true native plant pioneer. It has proven hardy and has grown well as far north as Washington, DC. Carolina Jessamine is the Sou...

Geranium maculatum
Common Name: Wild Geranium
Woodland perennial native to eastern North America. Deeply cut attractive foliage and pink flowers. A good plant for the woodland border in moist soil. ...

Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'
Common Name: European Wild Geranium

European woodland perennial similar to the North American G. maculatum, but with white flowers. Reblooms.

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Gordonia lasianthus
Common Name: Loblolly Bay
Gordonia lasianthus is a handsome evergreen tree native to moist acid soils in the coastal plain of the southern U.S. It is in the tea family and related to Camellia and Franklinia. Trees in the wild reach large size. The summer flowers are showy, ...

Gordonia lasianthus 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Loblolly Bay
Gordonia lasianthus is a handsome evergreen tree native to moist acid soils in the coastal plain of the southern U.S. It is in the tea family and related to Camellia and Franklinia. Trees in the wild reach large size. The summer flowers are showy, ...

Grevillea rosmarinifolia
Common Name: Rosemary Grevillea
Shrub to 6 feet, but sometimes lower and semi-prostrate. Flowers are red and cream in late fall (See HRT) Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As weather warms, re...

Gymnocladus dioicus
Common Name: Kentucky Coffeetree
A medium size rather slow growing deciduous tree native to the midwestern U.S. Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs says: "one of the most handsome of all hardy trees". The large compound leaves are pink tinted when unfolding and turn yellow in fa...

Habranthus brachyandrus? (red base)
Common Name: Rain Lily
This bulb produces grass-like foliage and following summer rains it bursts forth with many lovely pink trumpet like flowers on tall stems. The base of the flower tube is red. This plant can spread from seed in the garden. We belive this is Habrant...

Habranthus robustus? (green base)
Common Name: Rain Lily
This bulb produces grass-like foliage and following summer rains it bursts forth with many lovely pink trumpet like flowers on tall stems. The base of the flower tube is green. This plant does not seem to spread from seed in the garden. We belive ...

Habranthus texanus
Common Name: Copper Lily
Sometimes classified as Habranthus tubispathus var. texensis, this little bulb with grass-like leaves is native to Texas. It produces small copper colored to orange flowers like summer crocuses after a rain. Naturalizes nicely in sunny or semi-shad...

Halesia carolina (tetraptera)
Common Name: Carolina Silverbell
A small to medium size deciduous tree native in the southeastern U.S., the Silverbell makes an outstanding landscape ornamental in places with deep, fertile, well-drained soil with ample moisture. It can be used much like the common Dogwood (Cornus ...

Halesia diptera
Common Name: Two Wing Silverbell
Small to medium sized deciduous tree with pendant bell-like white flowers in spring followed by dry fruits with two wings (rather than four like the more familiar species). A very ornamental garden plant. Yellow fall color also. Good, well-drained...

Halesia diptera var. magniflora
Common Name: Large Flowered Silverbell

Rarely available small to medium size deciduous tree highly prized for large white bell-like flowers clothing the branches in spring. This large flowered variety of Two-wing Silverbell is found native in a limited area of the Flori...


Hamamelis virginiana
Common Name: Common Witchhazel
Witchazel is a large deciduous shrub or small tree found in woodlands over much of eastern North America. It is interesting in the landscape for its fragrant yellow flowers with little strap-like petals which cover the branches in November. Novembe...

Hamelia patens
Common Name: Firebush
A shrub in the tropics and south Florida. Perennial to 4 feet or more in the Deep South. Very heat tolerant. Reddish leaves and tubular red flowers. Has become very popular in Texas. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inche...

Hedera colchica
Common Name: Persian Ivy
The Persian Ivy is an evergreen vine with larger more leathery leaves than the common Ivy. The leaves are somwhat heart shaped and slightly lobed and toothed and with a celery-like odor when crushed. Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants mentions...

Hedychium coccineum
Common Name: Scarlet Ginger Lily
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Showy spikes of reddish flowers on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny or semi-shady areas. Woodlanders obtained this Asian native ginger as seed...

Hedychium coronarium
Common Name: Butterfly Ginger
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Showy spikes of very fragrant white flowers with greenish or yellowish blotch. Blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny or semi-sh...

Hedychium gardneranum
Common Name: Kahli Ginger
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Spikes of very showy and fragrant yellow flowers with striking red stamens. Blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with broad bluish green corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny...

Heimia salicifolia
Common Name: Willow-leaf Heimia
A spreading and much-branched smooth shrub looking very much like a Hypericum but not related. Actually related to Crepe Myrtle! Flowers yellow and axillary followed by a dry capsule. Plant is said to have medicinal and mildly narcotic properties....

Helianthus angustifolius
Common Name: Swamp Sunflower
Swamp Sunflower is a tall robust perennial that can be an aggressive spreader in a moist sunny location. A good perennial plant for the garden with ample space. In late summer and fall the plants are smothered in 2 1/2 inch wide bright yellow flower...

Helianthus longifolius
Common Name: Narrowleaf Sunflower
This rare native sunflower is found in Alabama and Georgia on sandy, well-drained soils. It has rather long narrow basal leaves from a creeping rootstock. The yellow daisy-like flowers are borne on branched stems about two feet tall. A little-know...

Helianthus verticillatus
Common Name: Whorled Leaf Sunflower
Very rare perennial with whorls of lanceolate leaves up the tall stems and clusters of yellow sunflowers at the top. Thought to be extinct until re-discovered in northwestern Georgia and adjacent Tennessee in recent years. A vigorous, spreading, an...

Helleborus orientalis
Common Name: Lenten Rose
The Lenten Rose is not a rose but it does flower around Lent. It is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with attrative palmate leaves with leathery toothed leaflets. The attractive flowers are a couple inces across and are white or purple tinged or st...

Hemerocallis minor
Common Name: Dwarf Yellow Daylily
Very fragrant early yellow flowers. Anice petite(See H&M, HRT) Three inch container....

Hesperaloe parviflora
Common Name: Red Yucca
Yucca-like stemless plant with 2-3 foot long narrow gray-green leaves and tall flowering stalks bearing pinkish red tubular flowers. Plant in sunny location with well-drained soil. A Texas native that is rare in the wild but widely cultivated in the...

Heteropterys glabra
Common Name: Redwing

Redwing (Heteropterys glabra) is a vining or scandent deciduous shrub with small lanceolate leaves and clusters of yellow flowers followed by red winged fruits that look just like maple "keys" although it is not related to map...


Heterotheca mariana
Common Name: Maryland Golden Atser

Sometimes classified as Chrysopsis mariana, this low bushy drought tolerant native perennial is usually found on sandy soils in sunny locations. In similar sites it makes a good garden plant covered with golden yellow daisies....


Hexastylis arifolia (stoloniferous form)
Common Name: Wild Ginger
Excellent evergreen groundcover....

Hibiscus aculeatus
Common Name: Pineland Hibiscus
Pineland Hibiscus is a perennial species native to the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it grows in flatwoods and damp roadside ditches, etc. It is more spreading, branched, and prickly than other native Hibiscus. The leaves are deeply lobed a...

Hibiscus coccineus
Common Name: Red Rose-Mallow
Tall open perennial with maple-like (or Marijuana-like !) leaves and bright red 3-5 inch flowers. Stamens extend from flowers. A striking ornamental Hibiscus that grows naturally in very wet sites in the southern U.S. but is widely cultivated in any ...

Hibiscus coccineus 'Lone Star'
Common Name: Scarlet Rose Mallow - White form
Tall perennial Hibiscus with maple-like or marijuana-like leaves typical of the species but this selection has pure white flowers. A little-known cultivar but very attractive. Wet to average soil. Sun....

Hibiscus cubensis
Common Name: Cuban Rose Mallow
Tall perennial hibiscus with gray-green foliage and slightly prickly stems. Flowers fairly large purplish pink. Grows naturally in marshy places but fine in ordinary garden soils in sunny location. Little known but garden worthy Hibiscus perhaps f...

Hibiscus dasycalyx
Common Name: Neches River Hibiscus
A very rare and endangered perennial Hibiscus found on the Neches River in east Texas where it is threatened by hybridizaton with Hibiscus militaris. This species has multiple stems from a thick base. It is readily distinguished by the narrow linea...

Hibiscus hamabo
Common Name: Yellow Hibiscus
Branching shrub to 15 feet. Single yellow flowers with a crimson spot at the base. This large shrub has wide rounded deciduous leaves. The bright yellow hibiscus flowers are produced in the summer. This Japanese native has proven hardy and free flo...

Hibiscus lasiocarpus
Common Name: Wooly Mallow
A perennial Hibiscus native to central and southern U.S. This species has rather wooly grayish leaves. Adaptable to ordinary garden soil in sunny location with ample moisture, this species has 4-5 inch wide pink or white flowers with a red center. ...

Hibiscus militaris
Common Name: Halberd-leaf Hibiscus
A relatively widespread native perennial Hibiscus found along streams and in wet areas in the southern U.S. The leaves and stems are smooth and the pointed leaves are halberd shaped. The flowers borne in summer are a pink with a reddish base. Like ...

Hibiscus moscheutos
Common Name: Swamp Rose Mallow
This common perennial Hibiscus or Marsh Mallow is found in wet areas, including brackish marshes, throughout the eastern U.S. It has relatively large broad and lobed leaves and showy white flowers with a dark center. This species makes a good garde...

Hibiscus mutabilis 'Plena'
Common Name: Confederate Rose
Confederate Rose is neither Confederate nor Rose. It is a shrub Hibiscus native to China. A wonderful big multi-stem deciduous shrub with leaves like a cotton plant and large double peony-like showy flowers in the fall that open white and change to ...

Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum'
Common Name: Single Red Confederate Rose
This Hibiscus mutabilis has slightly smaller and smoother leaves than the "Confederate Rose" and the bright red Hibiscus flowers that are single, not double, and do not change color. It is a warm climate shrub so will freeze back some or a lot depen...

Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca'
Common Name: Hibiscus Hybrid
This Hibiscus is a hybrid between the species H. paramutabilis and the familiar Rose of Sharon (H. syriacus). It is a relatively hardy deciduous shrub Hibiscus with ruffled orchid to magenta flowers with carmine eye that are larger than Rose of Shar...

Hibiscus sp. (affin. mutabilis) 'Nagoya Pink'
Common Name: Hibiscus 'Nagoya Pink'
Shrub hibiscus resembling H. mutabilis ("Confederate Rose") but with 4" single pink flowers. This and 'Nagoya White' were introduced by Woodlanders after growing them from seed we obtained from James Sharpe who collected it in Nagoya, Japan. Plant i...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana'
Common Name: Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana'
'Diana' is a hardy shrub Hibiscus (H. syriacus) that was a U.S. National Arboretum introduction. It is a triploid so the large white frilly flowers are long-blooming and produce very few, if any, seed capsules. It is stiffly upright and multi-stemme...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Freedom'
Common Name: 'Freedom' Rose-of-Sharon
A highly recommended selection from Shadow Nursery in Tennessee; this variety has semi-double red flowers. Flowers close in rainy weather. Non-stop flowers. Use in border or grouping. Good accent in summer garden. (See DIR) Prune old branches in ...

Hibiscus x sp. 'Peppermint Flare'
Common Name: Hibiscus, Peppermint Flare

This perennial Hibiscus hybrid is a 2010 Texas Superstar award winner.  It was selected by Greg Grant and is floral sport or perhaps a seedling of 'Flare' a H. moscheutos hybrid developed by Dr. Sam McFadden...


Holboellia coriacea 'China Blue'
Common Name:
An attractive evergreen vine with unusual purplish flowers in spring followed on female plants by purple sausage-like fruits. This fairly vigorous vine is an interesting subject for fences, arbors, etc. in the southern garden. We have not yet determ...

Holboellia coriacea
Common Name:
Holboellia coriacea is a very nice evergreen twining vine native to western China. Little-known in cultivation but well worth growing on a shady or semi-shady arbor or pergola in the southern garden. Our plants were propagated from the Charlotte, N...

Hosta tardiflora
Common Name: Plantain Lily
Hostas come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and varieties with immaginative names. We wouldn't begin to tackle these! This small growing Hosta is a neat little green leaf species from Japan that flowers in fall and adds a nice touch to the woodland ga...

Hosta yingeri
Common Name: Yinger's Plantain Lily
A species introduced from an island off Korea by our plantsman friend Barry Yinger for whom this previously undescribed species was named. It is distinctive for its very glossy leaves. It has grown well here in South Carolina and deserves to be bet...

Hyalis argentea var. argentea
Common Name: Blanquilla
Silver foliaged clump forming or somewhat stoloniferous sub-shrub or perennial to 3' tall. Grass-like leaves whorled on willowly stems. In the family Compositae. Flowers on taller stems with few rays but attractive. Has been hardy and evergreen in...

Hydrangea angustipetala f.  formosa
Common Name: Hydrangea, Willow leaf
This deciduous shrub is a Hydrangea but has willow-like leaves. Flowers are tiny yellowish fertile flowers with scattered marginal white fading to yellowish fertile florets. This is a new and little-known introduction which we obtained from Tony Av...

Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'
Common Name: Smooth Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
A selection of our native Hydrangea arborescens. A deciduous shrub to 5 or even 6 feet with very showy white snowball flower clusters in early summer. Selected by Dr. J.C. McDaniel at the University of Illinois who Dr. Michael Dirr describes as "a ...

Hydrangea aspera var villosa
Common Name:
Medium sized Asian shrub of spreading habit. The long, rather narrow leaves, the stems and the flower stalks are densely hairy. Large lilac-blue flower heads in summer. Plant in part shade in fertile soil that is well-drained but with adequate moi...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'All Summer Beauty'
Common Name: Hydrangea 'All Summer Beauty'
This popular Macrophylla Hydrangea is a compact, 3 to 4 foot deciduous shrub with sterile mophead flowers supposedly produced on new growth. Flower color will vary according to soil. Pink flowers (Alkaline soil) or Blue flowers (Acid soil) If old fl...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Billows'
Common Name: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This lacecap Hydrangea grown from Korean seed and selected by Dr. Richard Lighty of Mount Cuba Gardens in Delaware has blue flowers (in acid soil)and has shown good bud hardiness in colder zones. If old flowers are removed, hydrangea may flower again...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mariesii'
Common Name: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This fine Hydrangea produces large, graceful, lace-cap flowers which can be pink (alkaline soil) or blue (Acid soil) It can grow to 6 feet. If old flowers are removed, Hydrangea may flower again in August. Choose planting site with shade from the h...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nigra'
Common Name: Bigleaf Hydrangea 'Nigra'
A distinct of the Mophead Hydrangea notable for the conspicuous black stems. As with most other Hydrangea macrophylla varieties the flowers may be pink on alkaline soil or blue on acid soil. If old flowers are removed, hydrangea may flower again in A...

Hydrangea paniculata 'Kyushu'
Common Name: Panicle Hydrangea 'Kyushu'
Upright large deciduous shrub which can be fashioned into a small tree. It has bright green glossy foliage and white panicles of sterile and fertile flowers. This variety was selected and introduced through Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium having been...

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'
Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. Plant in fertile well-draine...

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snowflake'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Snowflake'
.Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. 'Snowflake' is one of our ...

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Harmony'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Harmony'
Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. Plant in fertile well-draine...

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Pee Wee'
Common Name: Pee Wee Oakleaf Hydrangea

Pee Wee is a dwarf, more refined form of the Oakleaf Hydrangea which is favored for small spaces or smaller gardens.  This deciduous shrub should have a shady or semi-shady spot with good soil and good drainage. 

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Hydrangea querifolia 'Sikes Dwarf'
Common Name: Hydrangea, Oakleaf 'Sikes Dwarf'

Sykes Dwarf is a relatively dwarf clone of the popular Oakleaf Hydrangea.  It was introduced by Louisiana Nursery, Opelousas, LA.  This variety should be considered where space is limited. The foliage and flower...


Hydrangea serrata 'Woodlander'
Common Name: Serrated Hydrangea Cultivar
This Woodlanders introduction was grown from seed tht we obtained from Chollipo Arboretum in Korea. This Hydrangea serrata is a small-leafed selection that has been much admired here. The serrated deciduous leaves display a purplish cast and the bl...

Hydrangea x 'Preziosa' 'Pink Beauty'
Common Name: Hydrangea Hybrid
'Preziosa' is a mophead-type hydrangea which is varyingly listed as a cultivar of H. serrata or as a cultivar of H. macrophylla or as a hybrid between the two. Features small mophead-like panicles (3-4") in which the showy sterile florets progress th...

Hypericum densiflorum
Common Name: Dense Hypericum
Dense twiggy shrub with small dark green narrow leaves and golden yellow flower clusters from summer to fall. Stoloniferous so spreads to form colonies of stems. Native to southeastern U.S. mostly on moist soil. ...

Hypericum frondosum 'Sunburst'
Common Name: Cedarglade St. Johnswort 'Sunburst'
A semi-evergreen shrub with blue-green foliage and powderpuff golden flowers in summer. This species is widely scattered as a native plant in the southeastern U.S. The selection 'Sunburst' was made by Dr. Richard Lighty of Mt. Cuba Gardens in Delawa...

Hypericum kalmianum
Common Name: Kalm Hypericum
Evergreen shrub to 3 feet tall with bright yellow 1 inch+ flowers. Leaves are bluish green. We are able to offer this attractive and very hardy St Johnswort thanks to Mr. Richard Lynch of Staten Island, NY. It is native to the northeastern U.S. and a...

Hypericum lissophloeus
Common Name: Smooth-barked St. Johnswort
Woodlanders was probably the first nursery to offer this rare tree-like hypericum native to a limited area in the Florida Panhandle. It is a graceful evergreen to 10 feet with needle-like leaves and outstanding copper-colored exfoliating bark. Native...

Hypericum myrtifolium
Common Name: Myrtle Hypericum
*Evergreen shrub with small bluish-green triangular leaves and yellow flowers. A small tree-like shrub that grows in sandy wet pinelands but makes a good garden shrub for sunny locations in the South. Another southern native Hypericum probably firs...

Hypericum nudiflorum
Common Name: St. Johnswort
Slender medium size shrubby St. Johnswort with relatively wide light green leaves. Rather uncommon along streams and swamps in the Southeast. Long oval leaves are light green and flowers are golden with many stamens as is typical for the Hypericums....

Hypericum prolificum
Common Name: Shrubby St. Johnswort
Dense evergreen shrub with arching branches, narrow shiny leaves and abundant showy yellow flowers in summer. Good shrub for the garden border in sunny dry sites. Like many Hypericums introduced by Woodlanders it is rather seldom seen in landscape. ...

Hypericum reductum
Common Name: Atlantic St. Johnswort
A low heatherlike needle-leafed evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, this St. Johnswort is native to open sites with deep sandy soils in coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. One of our favorite Hypericums. A good garden plant for sandy open sites w...

Hypericum stans
Common Name: St. Peter's Wort

This Hypericum (perhaps correctly H. crux-andreae) is a small upright branched shrub to 36" tall.  It has broad, somewhat clasping, semi-evergreen blue-green leaves and shreddy bark. The flowers are about 1"...


Ilex amelanchier (female)
Common Name: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...

Ilex amelanchier (male)
Common Name: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...

Ilex cassine (female)
Common Name: Dahoon Holly
Evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright berries(on female). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acidic. Can be used for screen, hedge, or ...

Ilex cassine (male)
Common Name: Dahoon Holly (male)
Evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright berries(on female). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acidic. Can be used for screen, hedge, or ...

Ilex cassine forma aureo-bractea
Common Name: Yellow-berried Dahoon Holly
Evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright berries(on female). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acidic. Can be used for screen, hedge, or ...

Ilex coriacea
Common Name: Large Gallberry
Large Gallberry is a tall evergreen shrub found in wet acid soils in the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it often occurs with the related Inkberry Holly (Ilex glabra). It is usually a larger plant with larger and broader leaves and slightly la...

Ilex cornuta x aquifolium 'Edward J. Stevens'
Common Name: Holly 'Edward J. Stevens'

Large evergreen shrub or small tree with dark green sparingly spined leaves. This is the male pollenator for the popular 'Nellie R. Stevens' Holly which often fails to set fruit due to lack of male pollenator.

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Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil (female)'
Common Name: Japanese Holly 'Sky Pencil'
Japanese cultivar of the familiar Japanese Holly distributed by Sylvester March of the U.S. National Arboretum. Dense plant with small evergreen leaves and black berries typical of Ilex crenata but this clone is very narrow tight column befitting the...

Ilex curtissii
Common Name: Suwanee Holly
Large deciduous shrub or small tree sometimes considered a variety of I. decidua, but the leaves are smaller and thinner. Looks very like a deciduous version of Yaupon (I. vomitoria) Red fruit occurs singly or in small clusters along branches. This h...

Ilex decidua 'Finch's Golden'
Common Name: Possumhaw Holly 'Finch's Golden'
Possumhaw is a deciduous holly that can be a shrub or small tree. It is native on bottomlands and moister upland sites in the southeastern U.S. It is better adapted to high pH soils than I. verticillata. Female plants produce abundant crops of showy ...

Ilex decidua 'Warrens Red'
Common Name: Possumhaw Holly 'Warren's Red'
Possumhaw is a deciduous holly that can be a shrub or small tree. It is native on bottomlands and moister upland sites in the southeastern U.S. It is better adapted to high pH soils than I. verticillata. Female plants produce abundant crops of showy ...

Ilex decidua (male)
Common Name: Possumhaw Holly

Possumhaw is a deciduous holly that can be a shrub or small tree. It is native on bottomlands and moister upland sites in the southeastern U.S. It is better adapted to high pH soils than I. verticillata. Female plants prod...


Ilex glabra ''Leucocarpa''
Common Name: Holly, White-berried Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites with acid...

Ilex glabra 'Nigra'
Common Name: Inkberry Holly 'Nigra'
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites with acid...

Ilex glabra (male)
Common Name: Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites with acid...

Ilex mutchagara (female)
Common Name: Shima-inu-tsuge Holly
Upright evergreen shrub similar to Japanese Holly (I. crenata) and sometimes considered a variety of it found on Okinawa. The small evergreen leaves have marginal teeth but no spines. A little known shrub with open graceful habit and black fruit on f...

Ilex myrtifolia
Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly
Usually a small tree. Much smaller leaves than I. cassine. Not suitable for chalky soils. Evergreen leaves are extremely small with prominent midrib. Abundant bright red fruit on females. Often grows in intermittent ponds. sandy acid , moist soil. ...

Ilex myrtifolia 'Purple Myrtle'
Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly 'Purple Myrtle'
Myrtleaf Holly is a large evergreen shrub or small tree found in seasonally flooded wetland sites with acid soil in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The very small narrow leaves are distinctive. Female plants typically have abundant red b...

Ilex myrtifolia (yellow-berried)
Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly (yellow-berried)
Myrtleaf Holly is a large evergreen shrub or small tree found in seasonally flooded wetland sites with acid soil in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The very small narrow leaves are distinctive. Female plants typically have abundant red b...

Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond'
Common Name: Holly 'Sand Pond' Hybrid
A Woodlanders introduction, this hybrid of American Holly (Ilex opaca) and Myrtleleaf Holly (Ilex myrtifolia) has small evergreen leaves somewhat like Ilexcassine x Ilex opaca 'Foster'. It produces abundant large red berries. Expected to make a sma...

Ilex opaca 'Fallaw'
Common Name: Yellow-berried American Holly 'Fallaw'
Ilex opaca, the familiar American Holly, is a medium size evergreen tree with spines on the margins and tips of the tough leathery leaves and red berries on the female plants. It is widespread in eastern U.S. on well-drained woodland sites and a wid...

Ilex opaca 'Dan Fenton'
Common Name: American Holly 'Dan Fenton'
Pyramidal evergreen tree with spine margined leaves and abundant red berries. This selection by Dr. Orton of Rutgers University is reportedly from southern New Jersey. It is outstanding for it's very glossy foliage and said to be "a significant imp...

Ilex opaca (female) 'Selected Red'
Common Name: American Holly 'Selected Red'
Ilex opaca, the familiar American Holly, is a medium size evergreen tree with spines on the margins and tips of the tough leathery leaves and red berries on the female plants. It is widespread in eastern U.S. on well-drained woodland sites and a wid...

Ilex pedunculosa (female)
Common Name: Longstalk Holly
Small to medium size evergreen holly tree native to eastern Asia. Leaves not spiny and more like Kalmia than "Holly-like". Noteworthy as a beautiful but slow growing tree that is one of the hardiest evergreen hollies with red fruit Berries are bor...

Ilex pedunculosa (male)
Common Name: Longstalk Holly
Small to medium size evergreen holly tree native to eastern Asia. Leaves not spiny and more like Kalmia than "Holly-like". Noteworthy as a beautiful but slow growing tree that is one of the hardiest evergreen hollies with red fruit Berries are bor...

Ilex serrata x verticellata 'Apollo'
Common Name: Apollo Deciduous Holly

This hybrid deciduous holly was developed and released by the U.S. National Arboretum as a pollenator for their variety 'Sparkleberry'.  Apollo is not unattractive but is best planted as a background plant in proximity to poll...


Ilex sp. (98FAB18)
Common Name: Chinese Holly
A Woodlanders introduction, this very pretty evergreen holly has spiny narrow leaves to 4'long that emerge bronzy, mature through light green to glossy dark green. It was grown from seed collected by Frank Bell at "last ridge crest south of Dali, Yun...

Ilex spinigera (female)
Common Name: Caspian Holly
This evergreen holly is a dense large shrub or small tree. Leaves are relatively small, oblong, glossy, and spine margined . Female plants have red fruit. This holly native to Iran is very rare in America. It is related to English Holly (Ilex aquifo...

Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Red Sprite'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...

Ilex verticillata 'Southern Gentleman'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Southern Gentleman'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...

Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red (female)'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Winter Red'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...

Ilex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Maryland Beauty'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...

Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Raritan Chief' Hybrid
This small deciduous male holly is a compact hybrid made by Dr. E.R. Orton, Jr., of Rutgers University. The parent species are Ilex verticellata native to the eastern U.S. and the closely related Ilex serrata from Japan. This is the male pollenator ...

Ilex vomitoria 'Hoskins Shadow'
Common Name: Holly 'Hoskins Shadow'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...

Ilex vomitoria 'Yawkey'
Common Name: Yellow-berried Yaupon Holly
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...

Ilex vomitoria 'Dewerth (male)'
Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Dewerth'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...

Ilex vomitoria ''Folsom's Weeping''
Common Name: Holly, Weeping Yaupon Holly
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...

Ilex vomitoria (female) 'Virginia Dare'
Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Virginia Dare'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...

Ilex vomitoria (male)
Common Name: Yaupon Holly (male)

This is the pollnator needed for good fruit set on female Ilex vomitoria.  Yaupon Holly is a dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit on female plants.  The berries generally hold...


Ilex vomitoria (male) 'Will Fleming'
Common Name: Will's Upright Yaupon Holly
A very unusual narrow upright form of this versatile evergreen. It was found in east Texas by Will Fleming. An exclamation mark to 15'. Keep tight by pruning. A great new fastigiate male. Good plant for narrow space....

Ilex x 'Bronze Beauty'
Common Name: Holly 'Bronze Beauty'
'Bronze Beauty' is a pyramidal evergreen hybrid holly with small dark green coarsely toothed leaves. Young leaves are beautiful bronze color. This holly is a female seedling of presumed parentage (Ilex x attenuata x Ilex aquipernyi ?) and is one of m...

Ilex x attenuata 'Alagold'
Common Name: Holly 'Alagold' Hybrid

A yellow-berried seedling of Foster #2 hybrid. Dark olive green leaves. Pyramidal growth habit. Introduced by Webb and Rainbow Nursery in Alabama. May be pollinated by I. opaca.

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Illicium anisatum
Common Name: Japanese Anise Tree
Japanese Anise is a glossy leaf upright evergreen shrub or small tree with aromatic leaves and pale yellow starfish-shaped flowers in early spring. This species is uncommon in American gardens but our native Illicium parviflorum has been widely sold ...

Illicium floridanum
Common Name: Florida Anise Tree
Florida Anise is a medium size evergreen shrub with dark green lanceolate aromatic leaves and 2 inch starfish-like maroon flowers. It is found in rich moist soil along streams in the central Gulf Coast area from Georgia to Louisiana. It is an an ad...

Illicium floridanum (variegated)
Common Name: Variegated Florida Anise Tree
Florida Anise is a medium size evergreen shrub with dark green lanceolate aromatic leaves and 2 inch starfish-like maroon flowers. It is found in rich moist soil along streams in the central Gulf Coast area from Georgia to Louisiana. It is an an ad...

Illicium floridanum var. album
Common Name: White-flowerd Florida Anise Tree
Evergreen ahrub with elliptical leaves that are aromatic when crushed. This is an uncommon white-flowered selection of this normally maroon flowered plant. The flowers which appear in spring are starfish shaped and about 1 inch in diameter. The pl...

Illicium henryi
Common Name: Henry Anise Tree
The Henry Anise tree is a handsome dense pyramidal Chinese shrub with waxy pink flowers and aromatic evergreen leaves. It was probably first made available to American gardeners by Woodlanders after we obtained it from Hillier Nursery in England. It...

Illicium lanceolatum
Common Name: Guandong Star Anise
Upright evergreen Chinese shrub with leathery lanceolate leaves that are aromatic when crushed. Somewhat like Illicium henryi and with similar small pink flowers. The star shaped seed capsules are not edible like the related Illicium verum or true S...

Illicium mexicanum x floridanum album 'Woodland Ruby'
Common Name: Anise Tree Cultivar Hybrid

'Woodland Ruby' Anisetree is a hybird of Illicium mexicanum and a white flowered form of Illicium floridanum.  This evergreen shrub with aromatic foliage has ruby-pink starfish-like flowers which are lar...


Illicium parviflorum
Common Name: Yellow Anise Tree
Native to scattered localities in Central Florida, the Ocala Anise is rare in the wild but widely cultivated in the South. It has highly aromatic olive-green foliage that smells like root beer when crushed and small yellow bell-like flowers in summe...

Illicium parviflorum 'Florence'
Common Name: Ocala Anisetree 'Florence' (variegated)
Native to scattered localities in Central Florida, the Ocala Anise is rare in the wild but widely cultivated in the South. It has highly aromatic olive-green foliage that smells like root beer when crushed and small yellow bell-like flowers in summe...

Indigofera amblyantha
Common Name: Tall Indigo
Our friend Ted Stephens at Nurseries Caroliniana says: "This plant has to be one of my top 10 favorites." It will reach 8 feet plus and flowers from late March to October. Wonderful background in a perennial border as it produces spikes of pea-like...

Indigofera heterantha
Common Name: Himalayan Indigo
Medium to large shrub with rosy purple flowers in 5 inch long racemes produced from axils of the compound leaves summer through fall. Leaves made up of many small leaflets along a midrib. Dr. Michael Dirr in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says...

Indigofera incarnata
Common Name: Chinese Indigo
Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers. Suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China...

Indigofera incarnata 'Alba'
Common Name: Chinese Indigo Cultivar
Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers. Suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China. Indigofera incarnata (decora)'Alba' ...

Ipomoea macrorhiza
Common Name: Big Root Moonflower
This rare night-fowering morning glory from coastal southeastern US is a perennial vine from a large tuber. It is presumed to have been introduced from Yucatan by aboriginal inhabitants in Pre-Columbian times and is sometimes found on Indian shell m...

Ipomoea saggitata
Common Name: Arrow-leaf Morning Glory
Arrow-leaf Morning glory is an herbaceous perennial twining vine with arrowhead-shaped leaves and pink morning glory flowers about 3 1/2 inches across. Most native morning glories are annuals and return each year from seed. This species is perennia...

Iris brevicaulis
Common Name: Lamance Iris
This native Iris is found on lowgrounds in the south central U.S. It has relatively short leaf blades with zig-zag stems and surprisingly large blue flowers that are held above the foliage. It is a good garden plant in moist fertile soil where it sp...

Iris cristata
Common Name: Crested Iris
Iris cristata is a dwarf woodland Iris found in interior of eastern U.S. It has rather broad leaf blades arranged in typical Iris fans. The lovely 1 1/2 to 2 inch blue flowers are borne on stems only a few inches high in spring. It is a great litt...

Iris hexagona
Common Name: Dixie Iris
Iris hexagona is a wetland Iris native to ditches and bogs in the Deep South. It produces big lavender Iris blooms on tall spikes and is a good plant for pond edges etc. but will grow in a garden bed that is kept well watered. ...

Iris pseudacorus
Common Name: Yellow Flag
A wetland Iris native to Europe and North Africa but naturalized elsewhere. It is a tall Iris with bright yellow flowers on tall stems. Plant is great for naturalizing around pond edges and even in shallow water but can be fine in ordinary garden b...

Iris sanguinea
Common Name:
This Asian Iris, a relative of I. siberica has narrow, dark green leaves and bears purple flowers on tall slender stems. It forms clumps which can be divided and has done well in our area with minimal care. Plant is sunny bed or border or in semi-sh...

Iris tectorum 'Album'
Common Name: Japanese Roof Iris
Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South says: "Japanese roof iris (I. tectorum) is famous in its native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as housleeks are uesed on cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky, green fans of leav...

Iris tectorum (blue)
Common Name: Japanese Roof Iris
Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South says: "Japanese roof iris (I. tectorum) is famous in its native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as housleeks are uesed on cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky, green fans of leav...

Itea chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Sweetspire
Medium to tall evergreen shrub with oval leaves about 3 inches long and 4 inch spikes of tiny white flowers in spring. This Asian relative of our native Sweetspire has been a good garden plant in the semi-shady border here and deserves to be more wi...

Itea oldhamii
Common Name: Taiwan Sweetspire
Itea oldhamii is an evergreen shrub with compact growth habit. Juvenile leaves can be holly-like but mature leaves are entire. It has racemes of white flowers in late spring. Plant in good soil that is moist but well-drained. In our experience thi...

Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet'
Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Henry's Garnet'
This now popular and widely grown selection of our native deciduous Sweetspire or Virginia Willow was first offered by Woolanders in 1985 as "Selected Form". We had propagated it from a plant obtained from the Henry Foundation in Gladwyne, Pennsylva...

Itea virginica 'Longspire'
Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Longspire'
Introduced by Woodlanders, this is an excellent, long-spired (6 to 8 inches) selection of our native Sweetspire or Virginia Willow (not a willow !) selected by Robert and Julia Mackintosh along the Augusta Canal near the Savannah River in Georgia. A...

Itea virginica 'Sarah Eve'
Common Name: Pink Virginia Sweetspire 'Sarah Eve'
This Woodlanders introduction is the first pink Itea. The flowers are essentially white but the pink pedicels make the racemes distinctly pale pink. This selection found by Nancy Bissett of The Natives in central Florida and was named for her daugh...

Itea virginica 'Little Henry'
Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Little Henry'
A new dwarf selection of our native Sweetspire or Virginia Willow (not a willow !) from Richard Feist of Hummingbird Nursery in Kentucky. Low mounded compact shrub to 3 feet. Fragrant white flowers and excellent fall color. A good Itea for the sun...

Itea virginica 'Shirley's Compact'
Common Name: Dwarf Sweetspire 'Shirley's Compact'

Dense tiny mounding deciduous shrub with small congested leaves. This little mutant was found at Biltmore House and Gardens in North Carolina. It is basically a curiosity suited for the rock garden or small space where it would not...


Itea yunnanensis
Common Name: Yunnan Sweetspire
Evergreen shrub similar to I. chinensis except more low and spreading and with more leathery and darker green leaves that are somewhat holly-like on juvenile plants but with smooth edges on mature plants. The white flowers are in 4 inch racemes in ...

Jasminum beesianum
Common Name:
This little Jasmine vine from western China has small deciduous leaves which are dull dark green and taper to a point. It develops a dense tangle of slender stems and is noteworthy for its flowers which while small are fragrant and of an unusual dee...

Jasminum mesnyi
Common Name: Primrose Jasmine
Jasminum mesnyi (primulinum) is a mounding or cascading evergreen shrub with showy pale yellow, semi-double flowers in spring and summer. At it's best in the Deep South where it's long viney stems can be used effectively to cascade down walls etc. Na...

Jasminum nudiflorum
Common Name: Winter Jasmine
Winter Jasmine produces a broad spreading rounded mass of trailing branches arising from a central crown. It could be trained on a trellis but is usually planted on slopes or embankments. It is one of the hardiest Jasmines and is valued for its yell...

Jasminum officinale
Common Name: Poet's Jasmine
"Common White Jasmine" is a scandant twining vine with pinnate compound leaves with five to nine leaflets. It is native to the Sino-Himalayan region but has been grown in Europe for centuries. It is not commonly seen in the eastern U.S. but is sati...

Jasminum officinale var. grandiflorum
Common Name: Spanish Jasmine
Deciduous or semi-evergreen vine similar to Jasminum officinale but less vigorous, less hardy, and with larger white fragrant flowers. In southern Europe it is grown to make perfume. Recommend planting on a trellis in a very sheltered spot in zone ...

Jasminum polyanthum
Common Name: Chinese Jasmine
This Jasmine is an evergreen twining vine with neat pinnate compound leaves and masses of fragrant white flowers that are pink in bud. A great vine for semi-shady location in very mild climate areas or as a conservatory plant in colder regions. Flo...

Juglans nigra
Common Name: Black Walnut
Black Walnut is a large tree native to eastern North America. It has rather open growth habit with compound leaves which leaf out late and drop rather early in fall. The large hard-shelled edible nuts are highly prized as is the valuable wood used ...

Juniperus virginiana 'Hancock Weeping'
Common Name:
Medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree with pendulous branches. A distinctly pendulous form of the common Eastern Redcedar. A Woodlanders introduction in the 1980's from a tree found in the wild in Hancock County, Georgia. A specimen at the J.C. R...

Justicia brandegeana
Common Name: Shrimp Plant
Shrimp Plant is so called because of the shape and color of the terminal flower clusters. This subtropical plant is native of Mexico and is an evergreen shrub in frost free climates. In colder areas it is grown as an annual or in much of the Deep s...

Justicia carnea
Common Name: Brazilian Plume Flower
Justicia carnea (Jacobinia carnea)is a South American native that is a shrub or sub-shrub in tropical areas, perennial here in zone 8. Upright bushy plant to 5' with glossy leaves and showy pink tubular flowers in dense terminal clusters from summer ...

Justicia tweediana
Common Name:
This shrub or sub-shrub from Salta Province, Argentina was introduced by Woodlanders. It has showy purple flowers in summer. It is from chapparal type vegetation area so is quite drought tolerant. Has proven root hardy here and should be tried in z...

Kadsura japonica 'Chirifu'
Common Name:
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. T...

Kadsura japonica 'Fukurin'
Common Name: Variegated Kadsura Vine
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. Th...

Kadsura japonica 'White Fruit'
Common Name:
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. Th...

Kadsura longipedunculata
Common Name: Chinese Kadsura Vine
Evergreen twining vine with dark green slightly toothed oval leaves. . We have not found further information on this Chinese species as it may be new to this country first offered by Woodlanders. It appears neat, clean, and vigorous. Your neighbor wi...

Kalmia hirsuta x latifolia
Common Name:
This seemingly unlikely hybrid between the common Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and the diminutive, less well-known, and very different Sandhill Laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) of the Deep South was probably first made by the late great Alabama nurserym...

Kalmia latifolia
Common Name: Mountain Laurel
Evergreen shrub sometimes amost tree-like. Glossy oval leaves reddish bark. Showy flowers in late spring. Clusters of white to pink cup-shaped flowers. A choice shrub for sunny or semi-shady moist but well-drained acid soil usually on slopes. Plan...

Kalmia latifolia 'Pristine'
Common Name: Mountain Laurel Cultivar
Pure white, found in Aiken County, SC by Mrs. Ernestine Law. Tissue-cultured in WA. Woodlanders'introduction....

Kalmia latifolia 'Willowwood'
Common Name: Mountain Laurel 'Willowwood'
A Woodlanders introduction we found in Aiken County, SC. Narrow willow-like leaves and pink, banded, flowers. Similar to 'Willowcrest' but from a warmer climate area so should be better than northern cultivars for zones 8 and 9. Tends to be more co...

Kerria japonica 'Alba'
Common Name: White Japanese Kerria
Kerria is a monotypic eastern Asian genus. This "old fashioned" shrub has arching green stems and toothed leaves. It has abundant yellow flowers in spring which in the most commonly cultivated form are double and like little yellow roses. 'Alba' i...

Kerria japonica 'Shannon'
Common Name: Japanese Kerria Cultivar
Kerria is a monotypic eastern Asian genus. This "old fashioned" shrub has arching green stems and toothed leaves. It has abundant yellow flowers in spring which in the most commonly cultivated form are double and like little yellow roses. 'Shannon...

Koelreuteria paniculata
Common Name: Goldenraintree
Small to medium size deciduous tree with compound leaves. Grown for the abundant panicles of showy golden flowers in early summer (later northward). An excellent adaptable tree for lawn areas. Native to eastern Asia. ...

Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud'
Common Name: Beautybush
Large deciduous shrub with showy pink flowers in spring. Dr. Michael Dirr in his "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says: "E.H. Wilson considered it one of the finest plants he introduced into cultivation." Somewhat of an old fashionedà plant in U.S...

Kosteletzkya virginica
Common Name: Seaside Mallow
Seaside Mallow is a medium size perennial with grayish leaves and showy 2 inch pink Hibiscus-like flowers in summer. It is a plant native primarily to brackish marshes in the eastern U.S. but it is good in sunny garden beds and borders....

Kosteletzkya virginica 'Alba'
Common Name:
Seaside Mallow is a medium size perennial with grayish leaves and showy 2 inch pink Hibiscus-like flowers in summer. It is a plant native primarily to brackish marshes in the eastern U.S. but it is good in sunny garden beds and borders. This select...

Lagerstroemia fauerei
Common Name: Copper-barked Crape Myrtle
This species of Crepe Myrtle from Yakushima Island, Japan is tree-like, has white flowers. and spectacular copper-colored bark. It is one of the parent species for the "Indian Tribe" hybrids (including the very popular 'Natchez') introduced by the U....

Lagerstroemia fauriei x indica 'Muscogee'
Common Name: Muscogee Hybrid Crepemyrtle

'Muscogee' is a free flowering hybrid crepemyrtle with lavender-pink flowers over a long period in summer.  This deciduous shrub or small tree is one of many crepemyrtles developed and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum...


Lagerstroemia indica 'New Orleans'
Common Name: Dwarf Crape Myrtle Cultivar
An unusual dwarf Crepemyrtle in the...

Lagerstroemia indica 'Pixie White'
Common Name: Dwarf Crape Myrtle Cultivar
A dwarf white Crepemyrtle probably the same as 'Dwarf White' or 'Snow'from Greenleaf Nursery or Hines Nursery. In any case a good white flowered selection that stays relatively small (perhaps six feet) and useful in smaller landscapes or in containe...

Lagerstroemia indica 'Bayou Marie'
Common Name: Crape Myrtle 'Bayou Marie'
A smaller Crepemyrtle selected by David Chopin of Washington, PA and introduced by Hines Nursery in California. Originator describes as:...

Lagerstroemia indica x fauerei 'Pocomoke'
Common Name: Dwarf Crape Myrtle Cultivar
'Pocomoke' is one of the first two minature hybrid crepemyrtles released by the U.S. National Arboretum. This selection with deep pink flowers is ideal for containers, small spaces, and rock garden type plantings. Retains dense mounded habit without...

Lagerstroemia indica x fauriei 'Chickasaw'
Common Name: Chickasaw Dwarf Crepemyrtle

'Chickasaw' is a very dwarf mounded, densely branched, disease resistant Crepemyrtle hybrid developed at the U.S. National Arboretum.  It has small oval deciduous leaves and pinkish lavender flowers in summer.  A goo...


Lantana camara 'Hybrida'
Common Name: Yellow Lantana
Creeping and drought tolerant. Hardy in a sheltered spot. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As weather warms, remove this covering to allow new shoots to emerge...

Lantana camara 'Miss Huff'
Common Name: Hardy Lantana
A now popular form of this very floriferous orange-flowered shrub attractive to butterflies. Discovered in cultivation near Athens, GA, and introduced by Goodness Grows Nursery. Lantana is a good warm climate shrub available in various color forms. ...

Lantana montevidensis
Common Name: Trailing Lantana
A small-leafed trailing Lantana with purple flowers. A good groundcover for sunny, well-drained sites in the Deep South. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As we...

Laurus nobilis
Common Name: True Laurel or Bay

Laurus nobilis is the culinary Bay whose bay leaves are used for seasoning. This European evergreen shrub or small tree has been cultivated since ancient times. It is a good garden plant in the Deep South and suited to pot...


Laurus nobilis x Umbellularia californica
Common Name: Hybrid Bay
Obtained as cuttings from the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC. Evergreen foliage is highly aromatic as are both parents. We expect this to become a small tree. NOTE: This may be 'Saratoga' a plant introduced by the Saratoga Horticultural ...

Lavendula stoechas
Common Name: Spanish Lavender

Lavender is a gray-green evergreen Mediterranean shrub that is not always happy in the heat and humidity of the southern U.S.   Nevertheless it is a great favorite for it's flowers, fragrant plant parts, and for...


Leiophyllum buxifolium
Common Name: Sandmyrtle
Small evergreen to 2 to 3 feet, covered in spring with tiny white flowers. Dry soil, sun to part shade (See DIR)...

Leitneria floridana
Common Name: Florida Corkwood
Corkwood is an uncommon shrub which forms colonies of tall slender stems in moist to wet soil in a few places in the southeastern U.S. and the lower Mississippi valley. It is notable for the very light wood which has been used like cork for fishing f...

Leonotis leonurus
Common Name: Lion's Ear
Lion's Ear is a South African perennial or tender shrub to 6 or 7 feet. It has showy whorls of orange flowers in summer. The oblong leaves are frost tender and the whole plant may be killed back in cold weather. In much of the South it is a depend...

Lespedeza bicolor 'Little Buddy'
Common Name: Lespedeza
This shrub or perennial is usually listed as a cultivar of the perennial Lespedeza thunbergii but Missouri Botanic Garden says it is a dwarf cultivar of the shrub Lespedeza bicolor. In any case it is an attractive plant for the sunny, well-drained si...

Lespedeza thunbergii 'Alba'
Common Name: Thunberg Lespedeza
Lespedeza thunbergii is a shrubby perennial with many woody stems bearing trifoliate leaves and 6-8 inch long racemes of rose-purple or white flowers in summer. They should have full sun and well-drained soil which can be rather infertile. The dea...

Leucothoe populifolia
Common Name: Florida Leucothoe
Leucothoe (Agarista) populifolia is a superb broadleaf evergreen shrub or even small tree. It grows much larger than other Leucothoe species. The tall erect multiple stems with arching branches have creamy white small fragrant bell-like flowers in s...

Leucothoe racemosa
Common Name: Sweetbells
This Leucothoe is native to eastern U.S. where it occurs in acidic woodland soils that are damp but not flooded. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with racemes of little bell-like white flowers in spring. The 1 x 2 inch oval leaves are fine...

Liatris spicata
Common Name: Spike Gayfeather
Liatris spicata is a perennial from a bulb-like root. It grows several feet tall with long narrow basal leaves and similar leaves reduced up the tall flower spike. The terminal flower spike is 6-15 inches long with myriad closely packed mauve flowe...

Licania michauxii
Common Name: Gopher Apple
Licania michauxii (Chrysobalanus oblongifolius) is a low colonial deciduous shrub that spreads by underground runners. It can become quite shrubby and semi-evergreen in southern Florida but may freeze to the ground in the more northern portions of i...

Ligularia tussilaginea
Common Name: Green Leopard Plant
Ligularia tussilaginea (Farfugium japonicum) (kaempferi) is a perennial plant with rounded glossy evergreen leaves. It produces spikes of yellow daisy flowers in fall. A good perennial for the shady southern garden bed. The most familiar form of th...

Ligustrum delavayanum
Common Name:

A neat, small leaf "Privet" native to western China and Yunnan. It is a spreading evergreen shrub to 10 feet. White flowers with violet anthers in dense panicles may be followed by black fruit. This rarely offered Ligustrum may be ...


Lindera akoensis
Common Name: Taiwan Spicebush
This evergreen Spicebush is a shrub or small tree with glossy, alternate, eliptical leaves 1"-2" long. We obtained this as cuttings from the garden of Bobby Green of Green's Nursery in Fairhope, Alabama as "an evergreen Lindera from Taiwan". It mat...

Lindera benzoin
Common Name: Spicebush
Spicebush is an aromatic deciduous shrub common in rich, circumneutral, moist woodland soils in eastern North America. The plant produces small yellow flowers in early spring before the foliage is emerged and has good yellow fall foliage. Males and ...

Lindera fragrans
Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Spicebush
Lindera fragrans is an evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy, leathery, bamboo-like leaves. Originally obtained through the Arnold Arboretum, Woodlanders is probably the first nursery in the U.S. to offer this lovely spicebush. It has grown well...

Lindera obtusiloba
Common Name: Japanese Spicebush

Japanese Spicebush is a large deciduous shrub that is usually multi-stemmed but can become almost tree-like.  It has broad lobed or un-lobed leaves that are lustrous dark green.  It flowers in spring with small yellow flo...


Lithocarpus edulis 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Tanbark Oak
This evergreen oak relative can become a medium size tree with dense, leathery dark green foliage. This form brought in from Japan by Dr. Fred Meyer of the U.S. National Arboretum has beautifully variegated leaves. Almost surely first offered in U....

Lithocarpus glaber
Common Name: Tan Oak

Lithocarpus are evergreen trees related to both oak and chestnut. The acorns are like oak and the clusters of white flower spikes are like chestnut. The flowers are showy but ill scented. This species is native to eastern Asia and ...


Livistona chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Fan Palm
Chinese Fan Palm is a beautiful, usually short trunked palm with large bright green fan-like leaves with segments that droop at the tips. It is widely grown in warm climates and is moderately cold hardy. It is being grown in coastal areas from Char...

Lobelia cardinalis
Common Name: Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower is a wonderful North American perennial native to wet areas but very easily grown in sunny sites with ordinary garden soils that are kept moist. It has a basal rosette of broad leaves from which arises a tall stem bearing a spike of ...

Lobelia siphilitica
Common Name: Great Blue Lobelia
This perennial Lobelia is similar to the red-flowered Lobelia cardinalis but the flowers are blue. These flowers are numerous, on tall spikes, and are about 1 inch long. The Big Blue Lobelia should be grown in moist soil in partial shade. Plants s...

Lonicera fragrantissima
Common Name: Winter Honeysuckle
An "Old Fashioned" wide-spreading deciduous shrub to 6 to 10 feet. Valued for the very fragrant creamy white flowers in mid-winter or early spring. This shrub is native to eastern China and makes a good border or background plant where the winter fl...

Lonicera sempervirens 'John Clayton'
Common Name: Yellow Trumpet Honeysuckle
Our native Coral Honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen vine of restrained habit. Leaves are blue-green with some encircling the stem. Flowers normally bright red but this selection a clear yellow. It is a compact repeat bloomer selected by the Virginia ...

Lonicera sempervirens 'Leo'
Common Name: Trumpet Honeysuckle 'Leo'
This semi-evergreen vine has blue-green leaves, some of which encircle the stems. Bright red tubular flowers over a long period attract hummingbirds. This is an excellent free-flowering clone of our native red honeysuckle. We have been unable to dis...

Lonicera x purpusii
Common Name: Winter Honeysuckle
This honeysuckle is a hybrid between Lonicera fragrantissima and the related Lonicera standishii. It is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with very fragrant creamy white flowers in winter or early spring. It is perhaps a neater and more attr...

Loropetalum chinense
Common Name: Evergreen Witchhazel
Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family. It can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving a fringe like effect and ...

Loropetalum chinense 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'
Common Name: Loropetalum 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'
Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family. It can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving a fringe like effect and ...

Luma apiculata
Common Name: Chilean Myrtle
Chilean Myrtle is also known as Myrtus luma. It is a neat shrub or even a tree to 20 to 25 foot. The evergreen leaves are small and glossy. It produces small white flowers and has cinnamon red bark. This Andean tree is not much known in U.S. exce...

Lygodium japonicum
Common Name: Japanese Climbing Fern
A very attractive climbing fern for a trellis or arbor. An attractive foliage vine but this species has become an invasive nuisance in some Deep South bottomlands. For this reason it should probably not be planted in zone 9. In zone 8 it is genera...

Lyonia ferruginea
Common Name: Rusty Lyonia
Rusty Lyonia is a tall evergreen shrub often becoming tree-like with contorted branches. New leaves are rusty red. Flowers are small fragrant, white bells. Plant in sunny or lightly shaded site with sandy acid soil and good drainage. This species i...

Lyonia lucida
Common Name: Fetterbush
Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-shap...

Lyonia lucida 'Morris Minor'
Common Name: Fetterbush 'Morris Minor'
Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-shap...

Lysiloma thornberi
Common Name: Feather Tree

Lysiloma is a shrub or small tree with fine pinnate ferny foliage.  The white flowers are in ball-like heads. It is a desert tree native to southern Arizona.  It is cold sensitive but will withstand brief periods of sub-f...


Macfadyena unguis-cati
Common Name: Cat's Claw Creeper
The "Cat claw Creeper" is a vigorous tender evergreen vine related to and somewhat like our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It likewise produces an abundance of yellow trumpet-like blooms. It climbs by tendrils and will cover quickly, maybe...

Machilus thunbergii
Common Name: Machilus
Machilus is a handsome broadleaf evergreen tree from eastern Asia related to Avocado. It has large glossy leaves but the flowers are greenish yellow, small, and not conspicuous. They are followed by small black fruits. We offer seedlings from a tre...

Magnolia ashei
Common Name: Ashe Magnolia
Ashe Magnolia is a rare deciduous tree with very large leaves like its close relative the Bigleaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla) but is much more shrub-like in growth habit. It has large white blossoms with a purple blotch at the base of the petals...

Magnolia ashei x macrophylla
Common Name: Magnolia Hybrid
This hybrid magnolia is the result of a cross made by Dr. Fred Meyer at the U.S. National Arboretum. The two parent species (which see) are similar and are closely related but one has the growth habit of a huge shrub and the other is very tree-like....

Magnolia fraseri
Common Name: Mountain Magnolia
Choice large leaf deciduous magnolia from Southern Appalachians surprisingly rare in cultivation. Medium tree with large creamy flowers, pink seed cones. (See DIR)...

Magnolia liliflora nigra x spengeri diva 'Spectrum'
Common Name: Tulip Magnolia Hybrid
A large growing deciduous Magnolia with pyramidal habit and abundant large flowers in early spring. The spectacular flowers are deep rosy pink-purple attention getters. This hybrid is a sister seedling of 'Galasy' and was a cross of two Asian Magno...

Magnolia macrophylla
Common Name: Bigleaf Magnolia
Bigleaf Magnolia has the largest single leaves of any North American tree. It is a deciduous Magnolia found scattered in rich sheltered woodland situations from West Virginia to Louisiana. The leaves which can be up to three feet long by one foot w...

Magnolia pyramidata
Common Name: Pyramid Magnolia
Rare. Crystaline white flowers. Odd fragrance. From the coastal plain. (See ATE, DIR)...

Magnolia salicifolia
Common Name: Anise Magnolia
Anise Magnolia is a tall, slender deciduous medium sized tree with very early white flowers before the relatively small narrow leaves appear. A good tree for a semi-shady lawn area with fertile well-drained soil. This Asian tree has an anise or swee...

Magnolia sprengeri 'Diva'
Common Name: Sprenger Magnolia
Sprenger Magnolia is a large rare deciduous Chinese tree with relatively large leaves and abundant big showy fragrant pink flowers in spring. May bloom as early as 7 years. This Magnolia is a wonderful tree that is surprisingly little-known in Ameri...

Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star'
Common Name: Star Magnolia Cultivar
Star Magnolia, a hardy Japanese species, is a large rounded shrub with deciduous leaves 3-4 inches long. It is valued for its late winter or very early spring display of white star-like blossoms which cover the plant before the leaves come out. 'Roy...

Magnolia tripetela
Common Name: Umbrella Magnolia
This hardy native deciduous magnolia has very large leaves and smooth gray bark. The creamy flowers are large and showy but ill-scented. The large rose colored seed cones are especially showy in late summer. This is a tree of the moist eastern dec...

Magnolia virginiana (Dodd's small leaf)
Common Name: Sweetbay Cultivar
Sweetbay Magnolia is a common tree of moist soil areas in eastern United States where it ranges from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants (Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana) are deciduous and the southern (Magnolia virginiana var. australis...

Magnolia virginiana australis 'Santa Rosa'
Common Name: Sweetbay Magnolia 'Santa Rosa'
Sweetbay Magnolia is a common tree of moist soil areas in eastern United States where it ranges from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants (Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana) are deciduous and the southern (Magnolia virginiana var. australis...

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana
Common Name: Sweetbay
Sweetbay Magnolia is a common tree of moist soil areas in eastern United States where it ranges from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants (Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana) are deciduous and the southern (Magnolia virginiana var. australis...

Magnolia x foggii '#2'
Common Name: Banana Shrub Hybrid
Large shrub or small evergreen tree of upright growth. Long 3/5 inch leaves and abundant, but somewhat ill-scented, 3 inch wide magnolia-like white flowers in early spring. This plant is a hybrid of cultivated origin. It is a cross between Magnoli...

Mahonia repens
Common Name: Creeping Mahonia

Low evergreen shrub with rounded holly-like pinnate leaves which are blue-green turning purple in cold winter areas. Stoloniferous evergreen groundcover for moist semi-shaded sites with good drainage.  Native to western U...


Malus angustifolia
Common Name: Southern Crabapple
Crabapples in almost infinite variety are popular ornamentals in the North. Most of them are not well suited to zones 8 and 9 but the native Southern Crabapple is well worth growing here. It produces an abundance of lovely pink flowers in early spri...

Malvaviscus arboreus
Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long. The petals do not open out flat like Hibiscus but it is a showy garden subject for the bed or border in mil...

Malvaviscus arboreus (pink)
Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long but this is the uncommon pink-flowered form of this typically red-flowered plant.. The petals do not open ou...

Malvaviscus drummondii
Common Name: Small Turk's-cap
This Hibiscus relative is native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot months and attractive to hummingb...

Malvaviscus drummondii 'Pam Puryear'
Common Name: Pink Turk's-cap
Small Turkscap is a hibiscus relative native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot months and attractive...

Malvaviscus drummondii x arboreus 'Big Momma'
Common Name: Turk's Cap 'Big Momma' Hybrid
This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see). A relatively recent Texas introduction by Greg Grant, this should prove a garden worthy plant that is likely to be a bit more cold-hard...

Manettia luteo-rubra
Common Name: Brazilian Firecracker Vine
Candy Corn Vine is a twining vine with small, rather succulent leaves and showy little red tubular flowers tipped with yellow like Candy Corn. It is a sub-tropical plant that is perennial here in zone 8, (Aiken, South Carolina) when planted in the g...

Manfreda maculosa
Common Name: Rattlesnake Master
This perennial succulent is a member of the Amaryllis Family native to Texas. It has 1 foot long soft fleshly, often dark spotted, leaves like the related Agave but they are not evergreen. The tall flower spikes produce spidery creamy white to purp...

Marshallia trinerva
Common Name: Barbara's Buttons
This native perennial grows from creeping rhizomes and is an uncommon southeastern U.S.native. The pink to purple flowers appear in mid summer. The leaves have three prominent veins giving it the specific name. It is a good but little-known perennia...

Mazus reptans
Common Name: Lavender-flowered Mazus
A low growing, primarily evergreen, Himalayan native spreading groundcover with smsll leaves and lavender flowers in spring. In rich soil they are useful for small scale groundcovers, rock garden plants, and between paving stones. Will invade a sha...

Mazus reptans 'Alba'
Common Name: White-flowered Mazus

A low growing, primarily evergreen, Himalayan native spreading groundcover with smsll leaves and white flowers in spring. In rich soil they are useful for small scale groundcovers, r...


Michelia (Magnolia) figo 'Port Wine'
Common Name: Banana Shrub
To 10 feet. Lustrous evergreen foliage. In late spring, flowers appear which are creamy yellow edged in maroon and have a fruity fragrance. (See DIR, O&T, O&P)...

Millettia reticulata
Common Name: Evergreen Wisteria
Evergreen Wisteria is not a Wisteria and is only really evergreen in the mildest areas. An attractive Asian vine that does resemble Wisteria but has dark purple-red flower clusters that are held above the foliage. A good fast-growing vine for the l...

Mimosa strigillosa
Common Name: Powderpuff
This native Mimosa is a prostrate deciduous groundcover with compound feathery leaves. It is vigorous and will cover bare areas with attractive foliage punctuated by erect 10 inch stems bearing marshmallow size pink powderpuff flowers. Found from Fl...

Monarda fistulosa
Common Name: Wild Bergamont
Tough perrenial growing several feet tall with whorls of purple flowers. Not as showy as some other species, but heat, drought and mildew resistant. A great plant for sunny borders and meadows. Native to eastern U.S. ...

Monarda x 'Jacob Cline'
Common Name: Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma is a fine clump or patch forming perennial native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon shade. 'Jacob C...

Monarda x 'Marshall's Delight'
Common Name: Pink Beebalm
Monarda didyma and it's hybrids are fine clump or patch forming perennials native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon...

Moraea bicolor
Common Name: Butterfly Iris
Also known as Dietes bicolor. Clump forming rhizomatous subtropical Iris relative with long narrow grass-like leaves about 2'long. Flat yellow flowers with a brown spots at the base of the petals. Very striking plant for the moist semi-shady spot in...

Morus rubra
Common Name: Red Mulberry
Medium size decidous tree native to the eastern U.S. It has large dark green leaves that are rough to the touch. Female trees have sweet purple fruit attractive to birds and children. Best in rich, moist soil. ...

Muhlenbergia capillaris
Common Name: Sweetgrass
A distinctive wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. Blooms in late summer and fall. A choice ornamental grass for sunny bed or border. Native to southeastern U.S. In the coastal area of South Carolina the f...

Muhlenbergia capillaris 'White Cloud'
Common Name: White Muhley Grass
A distinctive wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. Blooms in late summer and fall. This is a rare form similar to the normal pink plume Muhlenbergia capillaris but with beautiful white plumes which show up ...

Myrcianthes fragrans
Common Name: Simpson's Stopper

Simpson Stopper is a neat evergreen small tree or shrub with small leaves, white flowers, orange fruit, and nice exfoliating bark. Native to central and southern Florida.  It has surprisied us by being perfectly hardy her...


Myrica cerifera 'Luray'
Common Name: Southern Waxmyrtle Cultivar
Intermediate selection from SC, dense evergreen to 4 feet....

Myrica heterophylla
Common Name: Swamp Bayberry
Swamp Bayberry is found in acid lowgrounds in the Southeastern U.S. and is similar to M. pensylvanica but is evergreen and the fruits are smaller and almost black. The aromatic leaves are larger and broader than Myrica cerifera, the common Waxmyrtle....

Myrica pensylvanica
Common Name: Northern Bayberry
Bluebirds especially like this plant. Deciduous groundcover to 4 to 5 feet. Fragrant foliage, waxy gray fruit. No fall color. Sunny, dry soil, salt-tolerant. (See DIR, F&J)...

Myrica pumila
Common Name: Dwarf Waxmyrtle
The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla. It is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves that can form patches or colonies by undergro...

Myrica pumila 'Willow Leaf'
Common Name: Southern Dwarf Waxmyrtle Cultivar
The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla. It is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves that can form patches or colonies by undergro...

Myrsine africans (africana)
Common Name: African Boxwood
This is a small dense evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves and axillary clusters of red-brown flowers followed by blue-black pea-like fruit on female plants. It is adaptable for hedging. This shrub which could substitute for boxwood (Buxus) in ...

Myrtus communis
Common Name: True Myrtle
Evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and white flowers. Classic myrtle of the ancients. Sunny, well-drained soil. Can be used for topiary or bonsai. (See O&T, HRT)...

Myrtus communis 'Boetica'
Common Name: Upright Common Myrtle
Myrtle is an aromatic evergreen shrub cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean area. Possibly originally native to Iran and Afghanistan. This is an upright form of the Common Myrtle with somewhat larger and more pointed leaves which are ...

Nandina domestica 'Leucocarpa'
Common Name: Yellow-Berried Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica is an Asian shrub which has long been popular in the South. There are various named varieties including dwarf forms. The typical form is an upright multi-stem plant with minimal branching but with large glossy fern-like compound e...

Nemastylis floridana
Common Name: Florida Celestial
Uncommon fall blooming bulbous plant from wet sites in the Florida peninsula. Beautiful 1 inch diameter blue flowers on tall slender stems open in the afternoon in late summer. Grass-like leaves. Similar to the rare Bartram'x Ixia (Sphenostigma co...

Neomarica gracilis
Common Name: Fan Iris
Neomarica or Apostle Plant is an iris-like plant with shiny sprays of sword-like foliage and with showy, white with blue flowers at the ends of long scapes. These form new plants where they arch down and touch the ground (i.e. walking iris). It make...

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink'
Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Pink'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Red'
Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Red'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Double Yellow'
Common Name: Oleander 'Double Yellow'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'White'
Common Name: Oleander 'White'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Salmon'
Common Name: Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Double Pink'
Common Name: Double Pink Oleander

Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in variou...


Neviusia alabamensis
Common Name: Alabama Snow-wreath
Alabama Snowreath is a rare thicket-forming Spirea-like deciduous shrub with early showy white flowers which give a feathery appearance from the numerous stamens. This plant is found on limestone soils in northern Alabama, barely into Georgia and Ten...

Nolina georgiana
Common Name: Georgia Beargrass
Georgia Beargrass is an evergreen yucca-like plant with narrow wiry leaves from a central rosette or cluster. In summer a tall flower spike with tiny white flowers arises from the plant. This is a xerophytic plant with relatives in the Southwest and ...

Notophoebe cavaleri
Common Name:

Notophoebe (aka Nothophobe and Nothaphoebe) is a rare Chinese evergreen tree in the laurel family. It is ultimately a large tree in it's habitat. It has very attractive dark green foliage with very pale green to whit...


Nyssa sylvatica
Common Name: Black Gum
Black Gum, known in the North as Tupelo or Pepperidge, is a medium to large deciduous tree native to eastern U.S. It is a very desirable landscape tree valued for the brilliant orange-red fall color. It is adaptable to various soil types but is not...

Odontonema callistachyum
Common Name: Purple Firespike
Similar to Odontonema stricta, the Cardinal Spear, but leaves perhaps somewhat larger and more fleshy and the large colorful spikes of flowers are purple rather than red. Obtained from JoAnn Breland at Hampton Park in Charleston, SC and showing prom...

Odontonema strictum
Common Name: Cardinal Spear
Also called "Cardinal Flower", "Cardinal's Guard", "Firespike", and "Firestick". This is a subtropical plant native to Central America but widely grown in warm regions for the showy spikes of red flowers. It is probably a shrub in the tropics but i...

Oenothera tetragona
Common Name: Sundrops
Gray leaves....

Olea europa
Common Name: Olive
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. Whi...

Olea yunnaensis
Common Name: Yunnan Olive
Our source, Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina, described this plant as an Osmanthus-like evergreen becoming a small tree with small black fruit. It was collected near a temple in China at about 7,000 feet elevation. This little-known new intr...

Ophiopogon jaburan 'Argenteovittatus'
Common Name: Aztec Grass
'Aztec Grass' is neither Aztec nor grass but Asian and in the Lily family. It is a very attractive variegated plant whose narrow linear leaves have gray-green vertical stripes. It is similar to Liriope muscari but less cold hardy. A nice edging pla...

Osmanthus americanus 'Woodlanders Amanda'
Common Name: Wild Olive
Osmanthus americanus is an evergreen shrub or tree with smooth margined elliptical leaves and small white flowers in spring. It is native to the southeastern U.S., primarily in coastal plain woodlands. 'Devilwood', so named for it's difficult to wor...

Osmanthus armatus
Common Name:
Osmanthus armatus is an uncommon large multi-branched shrub with thick lustrous dark green holly-like leaves with prominent marginal and terminal spines. It has fragrant cream-white flowers in autumn. Female plants may produce small dark violet fru...

Osmanthus fragrans
Common Name: Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...

Osmanthus fragrans 'Conger Yellow'
Common Name: Tea Olive 'Conger Yellow'
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...

Osmanthus fragrans aurantiacus
Common Name: Orange-flowered Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthusm 'Goshiki'
'Goshiki' means Five colors in Japanese and this rather dwarf form of Holly Osmanthus is highly variegated with flecks of creamy or yellow variegation against the dark green background of the holly-like evergreen foliage. The new growth has showy pi...

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Variegatus'
Common Name: Variegated Holly Tea Olive
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Gulftide'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Gulftide'

 

'Gulftide' Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers.  It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partia...


Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Sasaba'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Sasaba'
Evergreen shrub with small leaves whose sharp marginal and terminal spines point in all directions. Dirr says: A plant handler's worst nightmare with deeply cut, incised, sharp, spiny, stiff, lustrous dark green leaves..." This uncommon Japanese cl...

Osmanthus megacarpa
Common Name: Scrub olive
Scrub Olive is a large evergreen shrub related to Devilwood (Osmanthus americanus). It is a rare plant restricted to the deep sand of xeric scrub vegetation areas in central Florida. It is similar to the Devilwood except for the xeric habitat and t...

Osmanthus x burkwoodii (x Osmarea burkwoodii)
Common Name: Osmaria

A bi-generic hybrid between Osmanthus delavayi and Phillyrea vilmoriniana (decora) but some botanists now merge Phillyrea into Osmanthus! This is a medium sized compact shrub with relatively small dark green toothed evergreen leave...


Osmanthus x fortunei ''San Jose''
Common Name: ' San Jose' Fortune's Osmanthus

This large evergreen shrub is a hybrid between Holly Osmanthus (Osmanthus heterophyllus) and Tea Olive (O. fragrans).  It  has thinner, more finely toothed leaves, and more upright growth habit than...


Osmanthus yunnanensis
Common Name: Yunnan Tea Olive
The Yunnan Osmanthus is a large evergreen shrub or small tree with magnificent dark olive-green leathry toothed or smooth margined leaves and mildly fragrant ivory-white flowers during late winter. Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs calls it 'sple...

Osmunda cinnamomea
Common Name: Cinnamon Fern
Cinnamon Fern is a big-growing deciduous fern native to eastern North America on humus rich moist to wet woodland soils. It is an impressive fern for similar shady garden conditions. The tall upright fronds which turn yellow in fall are preceeded in...

Osmunda regalis
Common Name: Royal Fern
Royal Fern is found in humus rich moist to wet woodland sites (and even open areas in the North) over much of eastern North America. It has rather coarse fronds with twice pinnate leaves composed of fairly large leaflets which are somewhat un-fernli...

Osteomeles schweriniae
Common Name:
Evergreen shrub with tiny white flowers followed by small fruit. Well drained soil. Sun...

Ostrya virginiana
Common Name: Hop Hornbeam or Ironwood
Small to medium deciduous tree with small, elm-like leaves and unusual fruits that look like Hops. Bark is gray-brown and peels in fine strips. A very good small shade tree that is adapted to well-drained soils in sun or semishade. Odenwald and Tu...

Oxydendrum arboreum
Common Name: Sourwood
Sourwood is a beautiful deciduous tree that is pyramidal when grown in the open. It is native to the eastern United States on well-drained acid woodland soils. It is in the family with azaleas and blueberries and produces sprays of showy summer flo...

Pachysandra stylosa
Common Name:
Pachysandra stylosa aka Pachysandra axillaris subspecies stylosa is a rare Chinese relative of the familiar Pachysandra terminalis groundcover but is quite different in appearance. This slow spreading evergreen perennial has whitish pink flowers in ...

Pailurus spina-christi
Common Name: Christ Thorn

Christ Thorn is a broad, thorny, deciduous shrub with small yellowish-green flowers in the axils of the small shiny leaves.  Fruits are a small flattened woody disc shaped like a Cardinal's hat.  This shrub with...


Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Common Name: Virginia Creeper
This familiar deciduous vine with five leaflets is native to eastern United States. It climbs by tendrils and up rough masonry surfaces by disc-like rootlets. The flowers are not showy but it is great for the red fall foliage. Its black berries are r...

Passiflora caerulea 'Constance Elliot'
Common Name: White Passionflower
Passiflora caerulea is a vigorous evergreen vine climbing by tendrils. The leaves are deeply divided with narrow lobes. The flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral. Flowers three to four inches across and blue is typical for the species. This is...

Passiflora foetida var. gossypifolia
Common Name: Corona de Cristo
This is an herbaceous perennial vine climbing with tendrils. It has hairy lobed leave and 2 inch wide pink intricate flowers typical of Passiflora with feathery bracts beneath the flower. The vine is also noteworthy for the red fruits the size of s...

Passiflora incarnata
Common Name: Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...

Passiflora incarnata alba
Common Name: White Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...

Passiflora incarnata x cincinnata 'Incense'
Common Name: Passionflower 'Incense' Hybrid
Perennial tendril climbing vine with thre lobed leaves and very large and showy purple flowers over a long period in warm weather. It is a hybrid between our native Passiflora incarnata and the South American Passiflora cincinnata. It produces few ...

Passiflora x 'Amethyst'
Common Name: Star of Mikan Passionflower
'Amethyst' is a beautiful red-purple flowered hybrid passionflower with reflexed petals and three lobed foliage. Parentage is somewhat uncertain. This vine is perennial and freezes to ground here in South Carolina but returns with vigor and flowers ...

Patrinia scabiosifolia 'Nagoya'
Common Name: Yellow Patrinia Cultivar
This yellow-flowered Japanese native is a tough perennial with oval rough leaves. The small flowers are persistent and held in inflorescenses above the foliage. It is good for cutting and a good perennial for sunny irrigated beds and borders in hot ...

Patrinia villosa
Common Name: White Patrinia
Good perennial for warm climates introduced by Heronswood Nursery. Flat clusters of white flowers held above foliage. Plants are somewhat stoloniferous. A good plant for the sunny border. (See ARM)...

Pavonia cymbalaria
Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This little Hibiscus relative is a low, spreading, gray-leafed shrub with pink, dark-centered 2.5 inch mallow flowers most of summer. This Woodlanders introduction is from a collection we made in the Sierra De La Ventana Mountains in Argentina. Plan...

Pavonia hastata
Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This shrub native to Argentina is a rather open growing semi-evergreen plant with narrow hastate leaves 2 to 3 inches long. Trimming or shearing will result in a more compact plant. Early blooms are cleistogamous ie.forming seed without opening but t...

Pavonia lasiopetala
Common Name: Wright Pavonia
Short-lived shrub best suited to sunny perennial border with well-drained soil and minimal competiton. Rose-pink hibiscus-like flowers open mornings all summer. Velvety, dark green leaves. Will re-seed. Can be pruned back any time throughout summer...

Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'
Common Name: Smooth Penstemon Cultivar
Penstemon digitalis is a fine perennial native the eastern United States. It has tubular white flowers on a panicle held above the leaves in early to mid-summer. 'Husker Red' is a selection developed at the University of Nebraska. It is similar to...

Penstemon dissectus
Common Name: Cleftleaf Beard Tongue
A very attractive rare perennial with deeply cut fern-like leaves and tall spikes of pink flowers. Occurs in sunny situations on shallow soil over rock but often with water seepage. Does well in ordinary garden soil. Native to limited habitats in c...

Penstemon smallii
Common Name:
Beautiful flowering species. Short lived, but self-sows. (See HRT)...

Persea borbonia
Common Name: Redbay

Redbay is an attractive medium size broadleaf evergreen tree related to the Avocado. Often confused with Swampbay (P. palustris), this species lacks the stellate pubescence on the underside of leaves, has fru...


Persea podadenia
Common Name: Mexican Redbay
Dense rounded evergreen tree related to and similar to our native Redbay. Collected in the mountains of Northeastern Mexico by our friends at Yucca-do Nursery in Texas, this little-known tree has been winter hardy down to single digits at Juniper Le...

Philadelphus inodorus
Common Name: Odorless Mock Orange
This upright and arching deciduous shrub native to the southeastern United States has showy but non-fragrant white flowers in late spring. It is a woodland plant and probably best grown in semi-shade with fertile soil and irrigation. It is a good ba...

Phlox paniculata 'David'
Common Name: Garden Phlox Cultivar
Tall perennial phlox native to eastern North America. This species occurs in many colors and there are many named varieties. "David' is a white flowered selection made by Richard Simon of Bluemount Nursery at the Brandywine Museum in Pennsylvania. ...

Phlox pilosa 'Eco Happy Traveler'
Common Name: Downy Phlox Cultivar
'Eco Happy Traveler' is a selection of the native Phlox pilosa from Don Jacobs 'Eco Gardens' in Atlanta, Georgia. This semi-evergreen groundcovering plant is a good choice for southern gardens in sun or light shade. Flowers are fragrant deep rose co...

Phoebe sp.
Common Name:
Broadleaf evergreen tree related to Persea, the genus which includes Redbay and Avocado. This species was recieved as seed from Nanjing, China as Phoebe neurantha, an apparently invalid name. This species seems similar to P chekiangensis which has pr...

Physostegia correllii
Common Name: Correll's Obedient Plant
This species of "Obedient Plant" or "False Dragonhead" is a robust, erect, somewhat succulent perennial from thick rhizomes. It has inch long lavender-pink flowers streaked or spotted with purple. It is a rare species found in scattered localities ...

Physostegia virginiana 'Vivid'
Common Name: Obedient Plant
'Vivid' is a compact upright form of the "Obedient Plant" with vibrant pink 1 inch long flowers in 12-18 inch spikes. It is easily grown in well-drained soil with sun and ample moisture where it forms vigorous colonies. Species is native to eastern ...

Pieris phillyreifolia
Common Name: Climbing Heath
This rare and unusual plant native to the southeastern U.S. is a small evergreen shrub in cultivation. In it's native swamp habitat it becomes a vine on Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) trees where it grows high up the tree under the loose outer bar...

Pinus glabra
Common Name: Spruce Pine

Spruce Pine is a choice ornamental pine with dense dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. The trunk looks like a hardwood tree trunk! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands in coastal areas...


Pinus palustris
Common Name: Longleaf Pine
Longleaf Pine, with needles up to a foot long, is the premier southern pine. It once occupied 92 million acres in a very diverse fire maintained ecosystem streaching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and east Texas. Now very little old-growth l...

Pistacia chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Pistacia
Chinese Pistacia is a medium size deciduous tree related to the Pistacio nut. It does not produce the edible nuts but does have splendid bright orange-red fall color, is drought and insect resistant, and has lustrous dark green compound leaves. This...

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides
Common Name: Monkeycomb
This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar, climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it has proven to ...

Pittosporum heterophyllum
Common Name:
This Chinese species of Pittosporum is an attractive evergreen shrub with narrow, 1 inch long, glossy leaves that are somewhat variable but generally diamond shaped. The small pale yellow flowers are fragrant. This still uncommon species is perhaps ...

Pittosporum sp (98FB104)
Common Name:
This Woodlanders introduction is a spreading evergreen shrub with small eliptical leaves less than one inch long. It has small yellow flowers followed by yellow fruits. It was grown from seed collected in China by Frank Bell who mistook it for an E...

Pittosporum tobira
Common Name: Japanese Pittosporum
A favorite southern evergreen shrub. From Korean seed, perhaps a hardier form. Medium textured evergreen shrub. Leathery dark green leaves. Fragrant creamy white flowers in spring. Sun to shade. Any well-drained soil. Good seashore plant (See HRT, O...

Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini'
Common Name: Dwarf Bamboo
Pleioblastus (Sasa) distichus 'Mini' is the most dwarf of running bamboo. Bambusero Adam Turtle of "Our Nursery" in Summertown, TN says it is a ground-covering bamboo that can be controlled with an edger. But it is a running bamboo ! Presumed to be ...

Podocarpus macrophyllus 'Okina'
Common Name: Variegated Podocarpus

Podocarpus macrophyllus is an evergreen conifer that is grown as a shrub or small tree in many southern U.S. landscapes.  This Asian species has leaves that are several inches long and about 1/4 inch wide.&nb...


Podocarpus macrophyllus (low growing)
Common Name: Yew, Southern
A low-growing selection of this popular southern conifer with flat needle-like evergreen leaves which spiral the stem. Woodlanders obtained cuttings of this form years ago from a plant at Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama but have not met with it...

Podocarpus parlatorei
Common Name: Pine of the Mountain
Very rare evergreen conifer native to a few very scattered localities on mountains just east of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. This plant is now available from Woodlanders and is CITES listed. Woodlanders is probably the...

Podranea ricasoliana
Common Name: Pink Trumpet Vine
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....

Polygonatum commutatum
Common Name: Great Solomon's Seal
Tall woodland perennial with unbranched stems bearing alternate delightfully oriented oval leaves with whitish pendant flowers in axils followed by black berries. A choice colonizing plant for the moist shady woodland garden. Native to Eastern North...

Polygonatum falcatum 'Variegatum'
Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
This Japanese perennial is a great plant for the woodland or shaded border. Polygonatum falcatum ( aka Polygonatum odoratum var. thunbergii) 'Variegatum' has striking summer foliage. It is easy to grow and spreads in moist fertile soil. The varieg...

Polystichum acrostichoides
Common Name: Christmas Fern
This evergreen fern has rather coarse foliage but it is a durable fern for shady sites on well-drained but moist soil. Christmas Fern is one of the hardier evergreen ferns native to eastern North America and is a useful plant for the shady garden. T...

Ponciris trifoliata
Common Name: Trifoliate Orange
A very thorny green stemmed shrub closely related to true citrus but much hardier. A parent of many Citrus hybrids and frequently used as an understock on which to graft citrus. Bears nice white flowers in spring and small aromatic but inedible oran...

Prostanthera x 'Poorinda Ballerina'
Common Name: Mintbush
Of several Prostanthera species received from Longwood Gardens, this one has proven satisfactory in our climate. It is a more or less evergreen shrub up to 6 feet with abundant purplish-pink flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in su...

Prunus angustifolia
Common Name: Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw Plum is a thicket forming deciduous shrub or small tree with very early, showy white flowers and edible yellow or red fruit. This species is widespread in the southeastern U.S. but is suspected of having been introduced from farther west b...

Prunus campanulata
Common Name: Formosa or Taiwan Cherry
This medium size deciduous cherry is native to Taiwan and is a great flowering tree for warm climates. The leaves emerge rich green, mature to dark green and are bronzy red in fall. The deep rose flowers appear in late winter or very early spring be...

Prunus caroliniana
Common Name: Carolina Cherry Laurel
Carolina Laurelcherry is a versatile evergreen tree which can be used for hedge, screen, or specimen plant. It has shiny green leaves with serrulate margins and racemes of white flowers in spring followed by black fruits which are eaten by birds. N...

Prunus incisa x campanulata 'Okame'
Common Name: Okame Cherry
This deciduous flowering cherry tree is a medium size hybrid between the rather tender Taiwan Cherry (Prunus campanulata) and Fuji Cherry (Prunus incisa). It is an excellent ornamental flowering tree with abundant pink flowers in early spring. It ha...

Prunus japonica
Common Name: Japanese Almond-Cherry
Small deciduous shrub with wiry stems and abundant small pink flowers as leaves emerge. A showy shrub that produces small red cherries. Long cultivated in Japan, this garden worthy shrub seems surprisingly little-known in southern U.S. landscapes. ...

Prunus laurocerasus 'Parkway'
Common Name: English Laurel Cultivar
English Laurel is a large shrub with large, glossy, evergreen leaves, spires of small white flowers, and sometimes small cherry-like red to black fruits. There a number of forms or cultivated varieties of this plant. This one which we call 'Parkway...

Prunus lusitanica
Common Name: Portugal Laurel
Portugese Laurel is a large evergreen shrub or small to medium size tree. It has ovate leaves which are dark green with reddish petioles. It bears racemes of small white flowers in late spring followed by small reddish to dark purple fruits. A fine...

Prunus mume 'Peggy Clarke'
Common Name: Japanese Flowering Apricot Cultivar
To 30 feet. Fragrant, double, deep rose flowers in winter. (See DIR)...

Prunus mume ''Bonita''
Common Name: Japanese Apricot Cultivar
Japanese Apricot is an attractive winter flowering small deciduous tree to 30'. 'Bonita has a semi-upright growth habit and double, rose-red 1" flowers in late winter. Plant in sunny location with well-drained soil....

Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula'
Common Name: Weeping Higan Cherry
This Japanese tree is a beautiful pendulous pink flowering deciduous tree. Dirr says: "Even if it never flowered would be garden worthy...growth rate is extremely fast as one does not have to wait until retirement to appreciate the ornamental virtues...

Prunus umbellata
Common Name: Flatwoods Plum
Picturesque small deciduous tree with rough bark. White flowers (often turning pink) in spring. Small sour purple plums used for jelly. Not thicket forming like Chickasaw Plum and later blooming. Plant in well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade....

Ptelea trifoliata
Common Name: Wafer-ash or Hop Tree
Hop Tree is a small bushy decidous tree that is quite adaptable. It has trifoliate leaves and very fragrant small yellowish flowers in spring followed by persistent wafer-like winged seeds. It is a larval food plant sought by butterflies and butterf...

Pteris multifida
Common Name: Spider Brake Fern
This Asian fern has fronds with narrow strap-like pinnae. It is widely naturalized in warm regions where it often grows in cracks of old masonry walls and other spots with high calcium soils such as moist shady spots along foundations, etc. ...

Pterostyrax corymbosa
Common Name: Little Epaulettetree
The Little Eupalette Tree is a rather rare small deciduous tree or large shrub native to eastern Asia. It has ovate bristle toothed leaves and panicles of fragrant white flowers in late spring/early summer follwed by 5-winged dry fruits. An interest...

Punica granatum (fruiting, from SC)
Common Name: Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...

Punica granatum var. flavescens?
Common Name: Yellow-flowered Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...

Punica granitum 'Eight Ball'
Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Common Name: Narrow leaf Mountain Mint
Perennial plant with long narrow leaves and attractive white to pale purple flowers on much branched spikes in late summer. The dense foliage and nice flowers of this adaptable perennial make it a good garden plant. It is native to much of eastern ...

Pyracantha sp. 'Yellow Berried'
Common Name: Yellow-berried Firethorn
This "Firethorn" is a clean attractive shrub with relatively small evergreen foliage and yellow berries which are abundant and persistent. We originally propagated this clone from a cultivated plant at Williamsburg, VA. It is presumably a named vari...

Pyracomeles vilmorinii
Common Name: Hybrid
x Pyracomeles (Pyracantha x Osteomeles) vilmorinii is a semi-evergreen shrub with arching thornless branches and deeply cut small leaves. Corymbose white flowers in spring followed by coral-red fruit. An attractive bi-generic hybrid of garden origi...

Pyrrosia lingua 'Kei Kan'
Common Name: Cockscomb
A beautiful selection of a Jap/Korean epiphyte/lithophyte. The leaf is deeply lobed like a feather, with some of the lobes having a secondary pointed lobe. Underside of the leaf is silky brown, very ornamental and rare. The name means "Cockscomb"....

Quercus acuta
Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Oak
Quercus acuta is an evergreen tree in its habitat, but usually a very large, low-branched, dense shrub in cultivation. The new growth emerges purplish-brown and the acorns are clustered and topped with a concentric ringed cap. This Japanese evergreen...

Quercus acutissima 'Gobbler'
Common Name: Sawtooth Oak 'Gobbler'
Quercus acutissima 'Gobbler' is a deciduous dense, broad, oval-rounded to broad-rounded tree with low-slung, wide-spreading branches. The cultivar Gobbler is the result of open-pollinated progeny that produce early and abundant acorns. One of the fa...

Quercus alba
Common Name: White Oak
White Oak is a large imposing deciduous tree reaching 50 to 80 feet with a broad rounded crown. It is a long-lived, slow-growing oak. Many venerable specimens exist. The leaves with rounded lobes turn russet-red in fall and are widely recognized as...

Quercus aliena
Common Name: Oriental White Oak
The Asian White Oak is a small to medium size bushy deciduous tree with large, dark green, toothed leaves. It is typically low branched and can make a good climbing tree. Plant in open site with fertile soil that is well-drained. This fine oak is ...

Quercus austrina
Common Name: Bluff Oak
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Quercus bicolor
Common Name: Swamp White Oak
Large deciduous tree with irregularly lobed leaves and acorns borne on long stalks. Native to bottomlands but drought resistant. Needs acid soil. (See DIR, S&W)...

Quercus coccinea
Common Name: Scarlet Oak

Scarlet Oak is a large deciduous tree with deeply lobed glossy foliaged often with excellent scarlet fall color..  It is a highly ornamental shade tree tolerant of dry soil.   Similar habit to Pin Oak in youth. ...


Quercus faginea var. faginea
Common Name: Portuguese Oak

Quercus faginea, the Portuguese Oak ia a semi-evergreen small tree or large shrub. It is variable and several varieties are recognized. The rather small dark green leaves are likewise somewhat variable and rather sharp toothed. Thi...


Quercus georgiana
Common Name: Georgia Oak
Georgia Oak is a rare, small deciduous tree in the Red Oak group. It is essentially restricted to granite outcrops in west-central Georgia where it can be stunted and shrub-like. Given a good site with acid soil it makes a very nice small, or even m...

Quercus gravesii
Common Name: Chisos Red Oak
Chisos Red Oak is a deciduous tree with rather narrow sharply toothed leaves that give excellent red late fall color, especially in cooler and higher locations. It is native to mountain areas in west Texas and appears tolerant of acid or alkaline soi...

Quercus hemisphaerica
Common Name: Darlington Oak
Large, fast-growing tree much used as a street tree and shade tree in the South. It is almost evergreen and resembles Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) but is more upright and not so long-lived. Sometimes confused with Quercus laurifolia, a bottomland...

Quercus lyrata
Common Name: Overcup Oak
Overcup Oak is a large deciduous tree found on floodplains and bottomlands in the eastern and central U.S. It is a round crowned tree that makes a good shade tree or street tree. It is adapatable to well-drained or poorly drained soils. Overcup Oak...

Quercus minima
Common Name: Dwarf Live Oak
Quercus minima is a dwarf evergreen oak related to Quercus virigniana. The foliage is similar to Live Oak and is usually entire on older wood or holly-like on new sprouts. It forms colonies in frequently burned sandy pine flatwoods of the southern ...

Quercus muehlenbergii
Common Name: Chinquapin Oak

Chinquapin Oak is a large deciduous tree with chestnut-like serrated leaves.  It makes a good shade tree and is especially good for well-drained high pH soils since it typically occurs on such sites in eastern and southwe...


Quercus myrsinaefolia
Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Oak
The most cold hardy evergreen oak. Extremely heat and soil tolerant. Smooth gray Beech-like bark. Superb small street or lawn tree. Handsome. Tolerates clay soil. Hardy to Washington, DC. (See DIRR)...

Quercus nuttallii
Common Name: Nuttall Oak
Nuttal Oak, named for the early 19th century botanist, Thomas Nuttal, is now called Quercus texana by some botanists. It is a large deciduous red oak native to bottomland forests, primarily in the Gulf Coast states. It is a good choice for a shade ...

Quercus oglethorpensis
Common Name: Oglethorpe Oak

Rare medium-sized southeastern oak first described from Oglethorpe County, GA by Wilbur Duncan in 1940. Very local distribution in GA and SC.  Reported in Louisiana.  Narrow deciduous foliage turns orange-red in fall.&nbs...


Quercus pagoda
Common Name: Cherrybark Oak
Quercus pagoda (or Quercus falcata var. pagodafolia)is a large deciduous oak of the red oak group. The leaves are the shape of a pagoda silhouette. It is a component of southern bottomland hardwood forests and is a high value timber tree. It is al...

Quercus petrea
Common Name: Durmast Oak
Durmast Oak is a large deciduous tree related to English Oak (Quercus robur)but with longer petioles and almost sessile acorns. Both are native to Europe and are the two oaks native to Britain. Quercus petrea is an important forest tree in Europe an...

Quercus pubescens
Common Name: Downy Oak
Quercus pubescens is a medium to large broad crowned deciduous tree, often broader than tall. I has round lobed but variable downy leaves. Long cultivated in Europe but not well known in U.S. It is native to southern Europe and Asia Minor. Plant i...

Quercus pumila
Common Name: Runner Oak
Runner Oak is a low-growing deciduous oak with stiff willow-like leaves. It is a component of the fire maintained southern pine forests of the Coastal Plain of the southern U.S. where it forms large colonies which produce abundant acorns when only a...

Quercus pyrenaeica
Common Name: Pyrenean Oak
Pyrenean Oak is a medium to large deciduous tree native to the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France, Spain, and Portugal. It can be shrubby or a wide spreading tree with pendant branches. The deeply lobed leaves are gray-green and very distinctive...

Quercus robur
Common Name: English Oak
The English Oak is a very large and long-lived deciduous tree native to Europe and one of two oaks native to Britain where there are many ancient "named" specimens. There are also many named varieties that have been selected. It makes an admirable ...

Quercus rubra
Common Name: Nothern Red Oak
A large, 60 to 80 foot, deciduous tree with relatively large, coarsely toothed leaves and rather smooth bark. A good shade tree with red fall color. Develops chlorosis at high pH soil so best on acid soils that are well-drained. An important timber...

Quercus shumardii
Common Name: Shumard's Scarlet Oak
Shumard Oak is an excellent pyramidal red oak to 60 feet or more tall. The lobed, bristle-tipped deciduous leaves have a good red fall color. Native to eastern North America, it is easily transplanted and widely planted as a handsome, adaptable, an...

Quercus stellata
Common Name: Post Oak
Post Oak is a large, long-lived, deciduous tree with rounded crown and stout, spreading branches. It is in the white oak group. It is native to eastern North America where it grows on a variety of well-drained soils. Post Oak can be identified by ...

Quercus suber
Common Name: Cork Oak
Cork Oak is a spreading medium size tree with dull evergreen leaves about 2 inches long and with slight marginal serrations. It is native to the Mediterranean region where it's bark is harvested as the source of commercial cork. Cork production is p...

Quercus turbinella x lobata
Common Name:
From California we obtained seed of Quercus turbinella x lobata x turbinella. This hybrid between two western oaks and backcrossed to one of them is sort of what may be expected with 2/3 Quercus turbinella. This hybrid has blue-green holly-like lea...

Quercus virginiana
Common Name: Live Oak
Live Oak is a magnificent broadspreading, massive, and long-lived evergreen tree that is beloved and well-known in the southern U.S. where it is native from Virginia to Texas. Live Oak has 2-3 inch long entire leaves and typically branches low to the...

Rhamnus caroliniana
Common Name: Carolina Buckthorn
Carolina Buckthorn is a small deciduous tree with shiny, dark green foliage and attractive red fruit that matures into a deep purple or black. The fruits ripen in August and remain on the tree until around October. Relatively unknown to gardeners and...

Rhaphiolepis umbellata 'Blueberry Muffin'
Common Name: Indian Hawthorn
The leaves of this handsome Asian evergreen shrub are gray-green when they first open, and later mature into a dark green or blue-green color. In winter, the leaves may turn a subdued purple-green. The white, slightly fragrant flowers bloom in mid to...

Rhapidophyllum hystrix
Common Name: Needle Palm
Needle Palm is a fan-leaf palm of mounding habit eventually forming a short trunk. It is a very ornamental palm that has been hardy to Washington, D.C. and has withstood temperatures to -6 degrees F. which may qualify it as the most cold-hardy palm. ...

Rhododendron alabamense
Common Name: Alabama Azalea
Deciduous shrub with fragrant white flowers with gold flair contrasts to the dark green foliage of this fine native azalea species. In April the flowers have a unique, pleasant spiced-lemon scent. It does best in sun or partial shade and needs well-...

Rhododendron arborescens
Common Name: Sweet Azalea
There are two forms of this native azalea. The plants in the Southern Appalachians and Piedmont bloom in late spring but in western Georgia and eastern Alabama they flower in summer. Upright, loosely branched with white fragrant flowers with contra...

Rhododendron atlanticum
Common Name: Coast Azalea
Dedciduous azalea of suckering habit (stoloniferous). The leaves are bluish-green. The white, clove -scented flowers occur with or slightly before the leaves. Corolla is covered with sticky glands. Commonly found in open pine woods on the coastal pl...

Rhododendron atlanticum 'Winterthur'
Common Name: Coast Azalea 'Winterthur'
See Rhododendron atlanticum. This is a superior compact selection. White flowers typical of the species. Not stoloniferous. Selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens in Delaware....

Rhododendron atlanticum x austrinum (orange-yellow)
Common Name: Native Azalea Hybrid
A fragrant early orange-yellow hybrid from a cross of two native azaleas which do not occurs together in the wild. Made by Robert Mackintosh and introduced by Woodlanders. It is similar to Rhododendron austrinum but not as large growing and only sl...

Rhododendron atlanticum x austrinum (Pale Yellow)
Common Name: Native Azalea Hybrid
A fragrant early pale yellow flowered hybrid from a cross of two native azaleas which do not occurs together in the wild. Made by Robert Mackintosh and introduced by Woodlanders. It is similar to Rhododendron austrinum but not as large growing and ...

Rhododendron austrinum
Common Name: Florida Azalea
Large growing deciduous azalea. Fragrant golden yellow flowers very early. Blooms here in late March-early April. One of the best native azaleas for the South. Grows well with irrigation under tall pines where soil is sandy, acidic, and well-drain...

Rhododendron austrinum 'Harrison's Red'
Common Name: Florida Azalea 'Harrison's Red'
See description under Rhododendron austrinum. The flowers of this clone are a unique coral color. This selection was found some years ago near Chipley, FL. ....

Rhododendron bakeri
Common Name: Cumberland Azalea
Also known as Rhododendron cumberlandense. A beautiful native azalea from the higher elevations of the southern Appalachians. Best in areas not subject to excessive heat. Orange to orange-red flowers in May. Dark green foliage and rathr dense habit...

Rhododendron bakeri x viscosum
Common Name: Rhododendron Hybrid
A Woodlanders introduction, this deciduous azalea hybrid is a cross made by Robert Mackintosh. It combines the red-orange flowered Cumberland Azalea (Rhododendron bakeri aka Rhododendron cumberlandense) with the white-flowered Swamp Azlaea, (Rhodode...

Rhododendron calendulaceum
Common Name: Mountain Flame Azalea
Loosely branched upright deciduous shrub with showy flowers that range in color from clear yellow, to striking orange, to almost red. These non-fragrant flowers appear in late spring. A choice and much loved native azalea but being a native to higher...

Rhododendron canescens
Common Name: Piedmont Azalea
This native deciduous azalea has showy pink, fragrant flowers that blossom in early spring. Flower color varies widely from pale to dark pink. It is sometimes stoloniferous (spreads by underground stems). Grows in acidic soil and from nearly full sh...

Rhododendron canescens 'Clyo Red'
Common Name: Piedmont Azalea 'Clyo Red'
This deciduous native azalea is possibly a hybrid between R. canscens x R. flammeum though we consider it the deepest red-pink selection of Rhododendron canescens (which see). We found this Woodlanders introduction in Effingham County, GA. It is an ...

Rhododendron flammeum 'Scarlet Ibis'
Common Name: Oconee Flame Azalea Cultivar
A brilliant dark orange-red selection of Rhododendron flammeum (which see). A Woodlanders'introduction selected by George Mitchell. ....

Rhododendron flammeum (speciosum)
Common Name: Oconee Azalea
This native deciduous azalea occurs primarily on steep slopes in the Piedmont section of Georgia and adjacent South Carolina. It is a splendid variety that blooms mid-season. It has bright orange to orange-red flowers and is well adapted to acidic w...

Rhododendron fortunei
Common Name: Fortune's Rhododendron
A large shrub or small tree. It was first introduced in 1855, and was the first hardy Chinese species that thrived. It has delicate and fragrant white, pink, to lavander flowers juxtaposed against matte, dark green leaves. A relatively heat tolerant ...

Rhododendron indica 'Balsaminaeflorum'
Common Name: Rose-flowered Azalea
Evergreen Satsuki azalea with double pink blooms like little roses with 40+ petals and no pistil or stamens. Blooms late spring to early summer. Provide partial shade and acidic soil as with other azaleas....

Rhododendron linearifolium
Common Name: Spider Azalea
A Japanese azales sometimes listed as Rhododendrom macrosepalum, this is a rare find in cultivation. Both the fushia colored flower petals and the dark green leaves are distinctly linear. Ths unique azalea's foliage often persists through the winter ...

Rhododendron minus
Common Name: Piedmont Rhododendron
Rhododendron minus is an evergreen shrub with small oval leaves resembling Kalma latifolia. It has showy pink flowers in spring. Closely related to R. carolinanium but taller and flowering later. This Rhododendron is native to the Southern Appalachi...

Rhododendron oldhamii
Common Name: Taiwan Azalea
Spreading open-branched evergreen azalea with dull green to yellowish-green fuzzy leaves. The deep pink to rust colored flowers may appear sporadically through summer, but typically this species flowers in the fall, which is a unique feature. Rarely ...

Rhododendron periclymenoides 'Purple'
Common Name: Pinxterbloom Azalea
Species (which see) formerly known as Rhododendron nudiflorum. Medium sized multi-branched, stoloniferous decidious shrub. This is a lavander-purple color variant of this normally pink flowered shrub that was found in Lancaster County, SC and introdu...

Rhododendron periclymenoides
Common Name: Pinxterbloom Azalea
This hardy deciduous native azalea, formerly Rhododendron nudiflorum, is found in the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont area, and coastal regions of the eastern United States. Blooms in mid to late spring. Has light-pink, slightly fragrant flowers....

Rhododendron serrulatum
Common Name: Hammocksweet Azalea
A large growing native deciduous azalea that ranges farthest south into central Florida. It is one of the latest flowering of the azaleas, sometimes blooming in Setember. It has rather small fragrant white flowers and grows in swampy areas. Rhodode...

Rhododendron viscosum
Common Name: Swamp Azalea
A rather stoloniferous native deciduous azalea with white flowers that have a sweet fragrance. These bloom in late spring with flower tubes that are glandular sticky. This species is widespread on acidic soils of the eastern U.S. on non-flooding wetl...

Rhododendron viscosum 'Roseum'
Common Name: Pink Swamp Azalea
This is e pink flowered variety of the normally white flowered Rhododendron viscosum (which see). This selection is a Woodlanders introduction of Aiken County, South Carolina provenance....

Rhododendron viscosum glauca
Common Name: Glaucous Swamp Azalea
A selection of Rhododendron viscosum (which see) with glaucous blue-green foliage. Has fragrant, sticky white flowers typical for the species....

Rhododendron x 'Pastel #06'
Common Name: Native Azalea Pastel Hybrid
Floriferous. A spontaneous hybrid probably involving R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. Mid-spring blooming. Flowers are a light to mid orange. An exclusive Woodlanders' introduction....

Rhododendron x 'Pastel #07'
Common Name: Native Azalea Pastel Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid probably involving R. alabamensis, R. canescens and/or R. flammeum. Blooms around mid spring. Flowers are a deep peach. This is an exclusive Woodlanders' introduction, and thus a distinct addition to your garden....

Rhododendron x 'Pastel #20'
Common Name: Native Azalea Pastel Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid probably involving R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. This azalea's flowers bloom in mid-sring. They have a beautiful pink coloring involving an orange wash. An exclusive Woodlanders' introduction....

Rhododendron x 'Koromo Shikibu'
Common Name: Azalea 'Koromo Shikibu'
Upright spreading evergreen shrub. Probably a R. macrosepalum hybrid although often listed as a Kurume hybrid. Hairy evergreen leaves that turn a redish color in the fall. Unusual spider-type purplish-pink flowers with 1/2 x 1-1/2 inch petals with d...

Rhododendron x kosterana x prinophyllum
Common Name: Mollis Azalea Hybrid
Upright deciduous shrub with large flowers that are orange marked with yellow. This hardy azalea is a large flowered cross made by Robert Mackintosh of our native Roseshell Azalea and the hybrid R. x kosterana aka Rhododendron mollis. The latter bein...

Rhododendron x Pastel 'Casille'
Common Name: Azalea 'Casille'
A spontaneous hybrid between R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. This azalea blooms in mid-spring. The flowers' exciting blend of colors adds interest. An exclusive Woodlanders' introduction....

Rhodotypos scandens
Common Name: Jetbead
Jetbead is a loosely branched deciduous shrub with somewhat arching branches. White 1-2 inch diameter flowers have four petals and are followed by persistent shiny black bead-like fruits which persist on the plant for many months. It is an "old fash...

Rhus glabra
Common Name: Smooth Sumac
Colony-forming large tree form deciduous shrub that is good for mass planting in sunny sites with dry soil. Could be grown as a single tree-like specimen if root suckers are controlled. Long pinnate leaves turn scarlet in fall. Persistant red fruit ...

Rhus typhina
Common Name: Staghorn Sumac
Colonial shrub or small tree. Very adaptable to all sunny environments except water logged areas. Bright green pinnate leaves and redish-brown fuzzy stem. Leaves turn yellow, orange, and scarlet in fall. Greenish yellow flowers and persistent red fru...

Ribes curvatum
Common Name: Granite Gooseberry

Granite Gooseberry is a rare shrub found on rocky soils in widely scattered localities from Georgia to Texas.  It is a deciduous shrub with arching branches which root where they contact the ground.  It has rath...


Rohdea japonica
Common Name: Sacred Lily of China
Bold groundcover grown for its foliage. Tufted evergreen leaves with very dark coloring, almost black. Prefers shade and adds interest to a winter landscape. Red berries are somewhat hidden at base. This plant is popular in Japan where it has been s...

Rosa banksiae 'Albo-plena'
Common Name: Rose 'White Lady Banks'
This is a thornless climbing rose ideal for covering fences and trellises. The small double white and lightly fragrant flowers bloom from April to June. This remarkable rose can handle partial shade to full sun and seems to thrive when neglected. The...

Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Common Name: Rose 'Lady Banks'
An old southern Garden favorite, this thornless climber has abundant but small lightly fragrant double yellow flowers. This rose is very adaptable and vigorous and require much less special care than most roses. Native to China. Best in zones 8-9 bu...

Rosa laevigata
Common Name: Cherokee Rose
A spreading, arching shrub that will climb over and around trees or any support. It has fragrant, pure white flowers about 4" across that bloom in April and May. This viney shrub also produces a red, bristly fruit. This evergreen rose is the state fl...

Rosa laevigata x 'Anemone'
Common Name: Pink Cherokee Rose
A clear pink flowered variation of Rosa laevigata (which see). Very beautiful and adaptable but rarely available. Woodlanders was fortunate to get cuttings of this plant in the 1980's from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania where it was being grown un...

Rosa palustris
Common Name: Swamp Rose
Tall somewhat thorny shrub rose with fragrant single pink flowers. Grows readily in wet soils and useful for naturalizing along pond margins and in sunny to semi-shady wet sites. Also adaptable to garden culture. Native to eastern U.S....

Rosa sp. 'Old Blush'
Common Name: China Rose 'Old Blush'
We don't usually sell a lot of roses but we love this old fashioned trouble free southern favorite with medium semi-double pink flowers in clusters. It is a rambling climber that is ideal for arbors, etc. William Welch says it blooms almost constant...

Rosa sp. 'Magic Dragon'
Common Name: Rose 'Magic Dragon'
Small flowered deep red rose that is trailing or semi climbing, long blooming, and trouble free. Its leaves are small, dark green, and leathery. It blooms from mid spring to mid fall and should have full sun. George Mitchell got this from our friend ...

Rosa x Mme. Gregoire Staechelin
Common Name: Climbing Rose Cultivar
Vigorous spreading, decidious hybrid rose climber also known as 'Spanish Beauty'. It has large pink flowers that are red in bud. It blooms in the spring. Its foliage is dark green and relatively free of common rose problems. I can grow in full sun ...

Rosmarinus officinalis
Common Name: Common Rosemary
Familiar highly aromatic shrub with evergreen needle-like leaves and blue flowers. Often used as a culinary herb. Requires full sun, well-drained, preferably neutral to slightly alkaline soil. Very low maintainance if kept free of competing plants. ...

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Collingwood Ingram'
Common Name: Rosemary 'Collingwood Ingram'
Low growing or spreading form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see) with bright blue flowers and narrow, dark green needle-like leaves. This evergreen is very aromatic and requires full sun and well-drained, preferable slightly alkaline soil....

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Miss Jessop'
Common Name: Rosemary 'Miss Jessop'
A fine-leafed upright form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see), sometimes used as a low hedge. Aromatic evergreen with fine textured needle-like leaves. Being Mediterranean natives Rosmaries should have full sun and well-drained, preferably slightl...

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Tuscan Blue'
Common Name: Rosemary 'Tuscan Blue'
Robust upright form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see) with clear blue flowers and dark green, relativly broad leaves. This aromatic evergreen requires full sun, well-drained, preferably slightly alkaline soil....

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus'
Common Name: Prostrate Rosemary
Low trailing form of the Common Rosemary. Blue flowers. Aromatic evergreen with needle-like leaves. Mediterranean natives requiring full sun, well-drained, preferably alkaline soil. (See HRT, DIR, O&T)...

Rubus coronarius
Common Name: Easter "Rose"
Easter Rose is actually a species of blackberry with large double flowers that look like a white rose. Flowers around Easter time hence the common name. Species is native to eastern Asia but has become a pest in some tropical regions. This double ...

Rubus irenaeus
Common Name: Bigleaf Raspberry
An attractive trailing vine with large rounded evergreen leaves (6 or more inches) and weak prickles. A rare and handsome groundcover plant that can live in full shade to full sun. This plant is also attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds. We ob...

Rudbeckia nitida
Common Name: Shining Coneflower
Shiny leafed perennial coneflower that produces it's big yellow daisy-like flowers during the summer. Our selection was propagated from a wild source in coastal Georgia where it has become uncommon or rare. Grows well under garden conditions with sun...

Ruellia brittoniana 'Katie' or 'Nolan's Dwarf'
Common Name: Dwarf Breakfast Flower
A showy dwarf and non-invasive form of the tall Ruellia brittoniana, a Mexican species known as "Breakfastflower" in Charleston, South Carolina. It is both drought resistant and heat tolerant. This little plant has strap-like leaves and bright blue p...

Ruellia caroliniensis
Common Name: Wild Petunia
This southeastern U.S. native perennial is called "Wild Petunia" and makes a good garden plant. It has beautiful blue or violet petunia-like flowers that appear in the spring, summer, and fall. The informative and entertaining book Passalong Plants ...

Ruellia coccinea
Common Name: Yerba Maravilla
A warm climate perennial that is somewhat woody at the base, this Ruellia has bright red tubular flowers about 1 inch long in summer. It will rebloom if cut back. A showy subtropical species that does well in the Deep South as a perennial for semi-...

Ruscus aculeatus
Common Name: Butcher's Broom

Butcher's Broom is a low prickly evergreen shrub (some forms up to 4 feet).  It is uncommon in U.S. The female plants bear bright red berries on the surface of spine tipped cladodes which look and function as leaves. Thes...


Sabal etonia
Common Name: Scrub Palmetto
A dwarf palmetto. Trunk mostly subterranean, but sometimes with a short erect trunk. Leaves green, costa-palmate, blade 3 feet across or more. Native on deep sand in central Florida but cold hardy throughout Zone 8 and even into Zone 7. Woodlander...

Sabal louisiana
Common Name: Lousiana Palmetto
Like a Sabal minor on steroids, this palm has been variously classified as a form of Sabal minor and a hybrid with Sabal texana. Ours originated in the well-known Brazoria County, Texas population and may be different from the trunked palmettos in f...

Sabal minor
Common Name: Dwarf Palmetto
Blue-green fan shaped leaves, essentially stemless. Fruiting stalks extend well above foliage. A very hardy palm native from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Oklahoma southward. Can grow in either full sun or heavy shade but likes moist...

Sabal palmetto
Common Name: Cabbage Palmetto
This palm is the State Tree of South Carolina and Florida. Should be planted in full sun. Blue-green leaves, and a trunk diameter up to about a foot-and-a-half. Native to coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida where it is found throughout the...

Sabatia dodecandra  var. kennedyana
Common Name: Kennedy's Marsh Pink
Perennial wildflower with tall stalks bearing bright pink, starry flowers on stem arising from a basal rosette of leaves. Rare, coastal and wet pineland species native along U.S. Atlantic coast....

Sageretia minutiflora
Common Name: Shellmound Buckthorn

This plant is a deciduous shrub that has scandent (viney) and somewhat spiny branches.  It is quite rare and of highly localized occurence on lime rich soils in the coastal plain from the Carolinas to Mississippi.&nb...


Sageretia theezans
Common Name: Chinese Bird Plum
Scandent deciduous shrub with small leaves and fragrant small white flowers. Long a favorite for Bonsai but little known otherwise. We came across this plant in Houston, Texas and found that while it did well in our area it was virtually unknown an...

Salix chaenomeloides
Common Name: Japanese Pussy Willow
Large deciduous shrub with reddish-purple flower buds. Showy male catkins are silky rose tinged. Leaves are dark blue-green in maturity. Easy to grow in sunny location with moist soil. Native to Japan....

Salix integra var. albo-maculata 'Hakuro Nishiki'
Common Name: Dappled Willow
An elegant small willow with glossy bright green leaves which are beautifully variegated pink and white when unfolding. Fast growing and makes a wonderful water-side cover. This is a cultivar of a species native to Japan....

Salix nigra 'Webb'
Common Name: Compact Willow 'Webb'
Black Willow is a common deciduous wetland tree in the South but this is a strikingly different vase-shaped form of Black Willow. It forms a small, dense tree. Like all willows it prospers along stream banks and low, moist areas. This unusual form i...

Salix sp. ? 'Rubykins'
Common Name: Willow 'Rubykins'
A vigorous deciduous shrub suited for moist site in sunny location. Narrow leaves have a white back and midrib. Slender branches bearing small red catkins in spring. Received from Dr. Michael Dirr who indicates that it may be a form of the Asian S...

Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires'
Common Name: Sage Hybrid
Half hardy perennial hybrid sage that occurred as a chance seedling at Huntington Botanic Garden in California. Large colony forming perennial plant with rich blue spikes of flowers from summer through fall. A great perennial for southern gardens....

Salvia greggii x blepharophylla 'Cherry Queen'
Common Name: Autumn Sage Hybrid
This hybrid shrub sage's parent species are from southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Bright red-orange flowers that bloom best in the cool of early spring and fall nights. Blooms from last frost to first frost. Prefers sandy loam or rich garden soil. Drou...

Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue'
Common Name: Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent)
Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent took a lot of flack for calling it that!): A vigorous large growing perennial sage with hairy leaves and large dark blue flowers with almost black calyces. This is an excellent long-flowering plant for the warme...

Salvia koyamae
Common Name: Yellow Sage
A large leaf groundcover type sage with brilliant yellow flowers late in the season. This plant should have a fertile well-drained soil and is more shade tolerant than most salvias. Indeed it should probably have shade in the warmer zones. Native ...

Salvia leucantha
Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Purple flowers with white corollas bloom in summer. This clump forming perennial sage prefers rich garden soil and benefits from light fertilization. It thrives in full-sun exposure, but can grow well in half-sun as well. It is very aromatic and attr...

Salvia leucantha 'Midnight'
Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Produces many lavender flowers which last from late summer through the first frost. They are fairly hardy and have velvety, fragrant leaves. This makes them unappealing to insects, and these plants are very resistant to diseases....

Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker'
Common Name:
Chance hybrid from the garden of our friend Frances Parker, gardener extraordinaire, in Beaufort, SC. She named this wonderful tall bushy perennial for her grandson. It has spikes of dark blue to purple flowers from late summer through fall....

Salvia microphylla ''Lutea''
Common Name: Sage, Yellow-flowered Littleleaf
Shrub salvia that can provide good ground cover. This clone has yellow flowers rather than the normal orange-red of the species. Prefers good garden soil or sandy loam; fertilize with lime and humus. Thrives in full-sun, but survives in half-sun exp...

Salvia microphylla 'Deltoid'
Common Name: Littleleaf Sage Cultivar
Shrubby plant with somewhat triangular small leaves with salmon colored flowers. Prefers full sun, but will survive in half sun. Thrives in good gardening soil or sandy loam. Lime and humus are suggested. A drought tolerant plant that attracts hummi...

Salvia uliginosa
Common Name: Bog Salvia
Handsome vigorous perennial with bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on. For average to moist soil. Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade. Aromatic. Native to Uruguay and Brazil and a goo...

Salvia urticifolia
Common Name: Nettle-leafed Sage
Blooms mid to late spring, and may have a second blooming in late summer. Has Prussian blue flowers and is native to the Appalachian Mountians. Prefers well-drained sandy loam and full sun to half shade....

Sarcococca hookerana var. digyna
Common Name: Himalayan Sarcococca
A spreading, half hardy evergreen shrub with fragrant flowers and narrow, glossy leaves. It grows well in shade and is related to Boxwood. Not susceptible to diseases and insects. Displays high drought tolerance once established. Native to western C...

Sarcococca hookerana var. humilis
Common Name: Dwarf Himalayan Sarcococca
To 1 feet. Evergreen. Hardiest form. (See DIR) Related to Boxwood, glossy leafed, shade-demanding evergreens....

Sarcococca saligna
Common Name: Willowleaf Sweet Box
Upright wide spreading.evergreen shrub with distinctive willow-like narrow leaves. Unlike but related to Boxwood. Dark purple to black fruit. This species from the western Himalayas is very little known and seldom available from nurseries in the U.S....

Sarcococca sp. (Sweetbox)
Common Name: Sweet Box
A Wodlanders introduction collected by Frank Bell in Yunnan, China, this sweet box appears much like Sarcococca hookerana and may be S. hookeriana digyna. We are giving you an opportunity to test and evaluate it along with us. Related to Boxwood, g...

Sassafras albidum
Common Name: Common Sassafras
To 30 to 60 feet, vivid yellow, orange, red leaves and blue-black fruit in fall. Spring flowers are yellow. Chlorosis in high pH soils. Bark of the roots used to make tea. Remove suckers if single trunk tree is desired. (See DIR, ATE, S&W)...

Schinus gracilipes
Common Name:
Evergreen shrub with long willowly branches and simple, toothed, glossy leaves. A very attractive shrub from higher elevation area in Tucuman Province, Argentina. Flowers probably small yellow. Fruit are small purple berries on female plants. It ...

Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight'
Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Cultivar
Silvery leaves. Creamy white flowers. From the U.S. Arboretum. (See DIR)...

Schizophragma integrifolia
Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Cultivar
Vigorous self-clinging deciduous vine with large leaves and large flat heads of Hydrangea-like white fertile and sterile flowers. Seems better than Hydrangea petiolaris for South. Woodlanders introduced this after obtaining it from China via Univers...

Scilla scilloides
Common Name: Chinese Scilla
A fall flowering bulb that blooms from late August through September in either full shade or full sun. Pink lolipop flowers adorn blue-green stems. They are exceptionally hardy and suitable for most soils. Will multiply in the garden....

Scutellaria serrata
Common Name: Showy Skullcap
Clump form. Oval serrated bright green leaves sometimes edged in red. Blue to violet flowers in racemes in late spring to early summer. Sun to part shade. well-drained soil....

Seemannia nematanthodes
Common Name: Hardy Gloxinia
Seemannia (Gloxinia) nematanthodes which we originally (and mistakenly) offered as Achimenes heterophylla, produces very showy bright red inflated flowers in late summer above dark velvety green leaves. A somewhat succulent perennial, forming colonie...

Selaginella braunii (involvens)
Common Name: Chinese Lacefern
Attractive fern-like evergreen groundcover. Spreads in shady areas with good garden soil. Native to China....

Selaginella moellendorffii
Common Name: Gemmiferous Spikemoss
A low, ferny, bright green groundcover from creeping rhizomes. Often reproduces from small cone-like plantlets on the fronds. Native to eastern Asia....

Selaginella uncinata
Common Name: Peacock Moss
Peacock Moss is not moss but a very low-growing spreading fern relative. It has distinctive scale-like leaves clothing decumbent stems which spread and form patches in moist, shady sites. It is unique for the irridescent metallic blue-green foliage...

Senecio confusus
Common Name: Mexican Flame Vine
An herbaceous vine with glossy green nearly succulent leaves. It is evergreen in frost free areas but otherwise a die-back perennial. Wonderful orange-red flowers with yellow centers in terminal clusters mid-spring to fall - sometimes year round in...

Serenoa repens
Common Name: Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto is a small fan-leaf palm that is common in pinelands of the Deep South. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southeastern United States. Normally a low, spreading palm with decumbent trunks but s...

Serenoa repens (blue form)
Common Name: Blue Saw Palmetto
These are seedlings of the glaucous blue form of this small palm that is common in Deep South pinelands. The glaucous blue form is found on the east coast of Florida. Grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southe...

Serissa foetida 'Kowloon'
Common Name: Yellow-rim
Highly variegated form of this adaptable evergreen shrub. Non-fragrant white star-like small flowers bloom May through June. This Asian shrub is a nice border plant for southern gardens and landscapes. Grow in well-drained soil in sun or semi shade....

Setaria palmifolia
Common Name: Palm Grass
A bold bright green accent with wide blades suggesting palm foliage. Hardy and reseeding here. Requires full sun to partial shade, and prefers moist soil. Prospers next to bodies of water and do fairly well in shaded, dry soil as well. Once establis...

Shibataea kumasaca
Common Name: Hedge Bamboo
A hardy low-growing bamboo which has rather short broad leaves. It spreads by runners but is less invasive than many running bamboos. Spread can be limited by mowing. It makes an excellent hedge. Needs fairly dry and acidic soil and is very resis...

Silene virginica
Common Name: Fire Pink
This perennial "Catchfly" has striking crimson flowers with notched petals. It flowers from late spring/early summer. A well-drained, gritty soil is good and in the North a full sun exposure is preferable. In the South it should have light shade. ...

Silphium perfoliatum
Common Name: Cup-plant
Statuesque to 10 feet, bold foliage topped with yellow daisies. Makes a nice cover for bare areas. Blooms in mid summer and is pest resistant. Prefers to be near bodies of water or on the edges of woodlands with full sun, but will tolerate dry clay s...

Sinocalycanthus sinensis
Common Name: Chinese Sweetshrub
Large deciduous shrub recently reclassified as a Calycanthus. Somewhat like our native Calycanthus floridus but with larger 6 - 10 inch glossy leaves. Cream-white blooms in late spring are larger than North American Calycanthus species flowers but ...

Smilax biflora var. biflora
Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
A curious deciduous groundcover. Small leaves, twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offered it as such for years. Our f...

Smilax pumila
Common Name: Dwarf Smilax

Dwarf Smilax is a low non-thorny evergreen vine with mottled leaves and clusters of attractive orange to red fruits on female plants. This little-known southern greenbriar makes a nice groundcover in sandy acid, moist but...


Smilax smallii
Common Name: Bamboo Vine
High climbing vine with shiny evergreen foliage. Great for trellis, porch, or cut for long lasting decoration. Female plants have green berries which turn black. Mostly thornless except on young shoots near the ground. Grows from a large potato-l...

Solanum jasminoides
Common Name: Potato Vine
Vigorous evergreen vine that blooms from mid summer to mid fall. Showy star shaped white flowers tinged with blue in the summer produce a wonderful fragrance. Can survive in sandy soil, clay, or rich gardening soil and can withstand both moist and d...

Solidago (Chrysoma) pauciflosculosa
Common Name: Shrub Goldenrod
Evergreen shrub with grayish leaves. Terminal spikes of yellow goldenrod flowers. Found in sterile dry sands of sandhills and old dunes in SC, GA, FL, and AL . Unusual being a woody shrub as other goldenrods are herbaceous perennials. Do not plant ...

Spirea virginiana
Common Name: Virginia Spirea

This spirea is a rare deciduous shrub with arching upright stems and small leaves. It bears paniculate clusters of creamy white flowers. It is found in a very few places along rocky stream banks in the southern Appalachians. It has...


Stauntonia hexaphylla
Common Name: Mube
Splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. Bears sausage like fruit and flowers that bloom in spring. Prefers well drained sandy, loamy, and clay moist soils. It can survive in a variety of soils and can grow in full sun to semi-sha...

Stokesia laevis
Common Name: Stokes Aster
Hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large blue daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer. These plants are often used in formal gardens and need well-drained soil and sunlight....

Stokesia laevis 'Alba'
Common Name: White Stoke's Aster
.Hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer and are blue in the typical form but white in this one. These plants are often used in form...

Styrax americanus
Common Name: American Snowbell
American Snowbell is usually a multi-stem deciduous shrub but can be trained as a small tree. It is found on streamsides and in wet areas in the southern U.S. but does well in ordinary garden conditions with good soil and ample moisture. It will gr...

Styrax japonicus
Common Name: Japanese Snowbell
Small deciduous tree medium to dark green lustrous leaves and white bell flowers. Has beautiful gray-brown, smooth bark. Shows great pest resistance. Full sun to partial shade and well-drained, acidic soil optimize its environment. An attractive and ...

Styrax obassia
Common Name: Fragrant Snowbell
Small to medium size tree with white, fragrant flowers that bloom in mid-April in the South, later in the North. It has especially large foliage for a Styrax and gorgeous gray-brown bark. Ideal conditions include ample moisture and partial shade. Ca...

Tagetes lemmonii
Common Name: Shrub Marigold
This Mexican shrub with pungently aromatic foliage produces masses of bright yellow flowers in late fall. It dies back somewhat in winter. It makes a great border plant in a sunny, well-drained site and adds a lot of color to the late fall landscap...

Tagetes lucida
Common Name: Mexican Marigold
While not hardy in cold regions, this perennial is great for the Deep South when given a sunny site with well-drained soil. It is easy to grow. The aromatic leaves are a French Tarragon substitute. It flowers in late fall with orange flowers. It i...

Taxodium ascendens
Common Name: Pond Cypress
Pond Cypress is a deciduous conifer closely related to the Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) so widespread in the southern U.S. Pond Cypress is not usually as large as Baldcypress, produces little in the way of "Cypress knees" and is usually more nar...

Taxodium distichum
Common Name: Bald Cypress
Long-lived large deciduous conifer charactersitic of swamps and river margins in the southern U.S. A valuable timber tree, it is broadly pyramidal when young and has feather-like leaves. Can grows in water or on upland sites (when planted). Casts l...

Tecoma garrocha
Common Name:
Deciduous pinnate leaf shrub from Argentina similar to the more familiar, yellow-flowered Tecoma stans except the flowers are red. It appears to be tender. These seedlings thanks to fellow explorer Tony Avent. Seed we collected in Argentina did no...

Tecomaria capensis
Common Name: Cape Honeysuckle
Rangy vine-like shrub with pretty glossy compound leaves like Trumpet Vine. Very showy flowers liked by hummingbirds. Can be trained up or allowed to cascade. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the s...

Thelypteris acuminata
Common Name: Hosida (Japan)
A fine evergreen fern native to Japan. A good spreader for fertile moist soil in the shade. Glossy arching fronds. We originally obtained this fern from the U.S. National Arboretum....

Thelypteris decursive-pinnata
Common Name: Japanese Beech Fern
A tidy spreading groundcover fern native to eastern and southeastern Asia but closely related to our native Beech Ferns. It is deciduous after frost and is easily grown and multiplied. Does not spread rapidly but can be speeded up by dividing and r...

Thelypteris kunthii
Common Name: Southern Shield Fern
Large pale green spreader. One pictuerd by itself in Southern Living article. Softer. Arches...

Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens'
Common Name: Giant Arborvitae
Large imposing evergreen conifer native to northwestern North America where old specimens in the wild may reach almost 200 feet tall. Proving very adaptable to eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S. conditions when properly sited. This clone is a v...

Thuja plicata 'Green Giant'
Common Name: Western Redcedar Cultivar
Excellent large dark green conifer possibly a hybrid between Thuja plicata and Thuja standishii, both of which are native to northwestern North America. It was however selected as a seedling from a nursery bed in Denmark in 1935 ! It has a broad py...

Thujopsis dolobrata 'Nana'
Common Name: Dwarf Hiba Arborvitae
Shrubby rounded dwarf form of a large Japanese evergreen tree with flattened sprays of shining evergreen foliage. Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) says it is seldom found in the U.S. but a beautiful plant for shady sites with moist acid soil a...

Tiarella cordifolia var. collina
Common Name: Wherry's Foamflower
Tiarella is a beautiful woodland wildflower native to shady rich woods in the eastern U.S. and Canada. It produces nice foliage and spikes of foamy white flowers in spring. The typical Tiarella cordifolia spreads by runners but this is a clump form...

Tiarella cordifolia var. collina 'George Schenk'
Common Name: Foamflower 'George Schenk'
Similar to Tiarella cordifolia var. collina (which see) except flowers are definitely pink....

Tibouchina urvilleana
Common Name:
A subtropical shrub which is a die-back perennial in all but essentially frost-free areas. It has velvety textured leaves with prominent veins and very showy deep purple flowers. Foliage may become red in fall before being killed by frost. In zone...

Tilia caroliniana
Common Name: Carolina Basswood

Basswoods are medium to large deciduous trees with heart shaped leaves, yellowish fragrant flowers, and small nutlets on stalks attached to a papery wing.  There are many species in the Northern Hemisphere but the&nb...


Torreya grandis
Common Name: Chinese Torreya
Little-known in cultivation and rare in the U.S. this yew-like conifer has yellowish green needles. It becomes a tree in the wild but is still supposedly the "least grand" of the genus. It usually remains shrubby or a small tree in cultivation. Plan...

Torreya nucifera
Common Name: Japanese Torreya
Pyramidal dense conifer with yew-like aromatic needles which are stiff and prickly. Fruits are like small plums. Fertile well-drained soil in sun or light shade. May reach 40 feet in suitable site. Casts moderate to dense shade. Native to Japan a...

Torreya taxifolia
Common Name: Stinking Cedar
"Stinking Cedar" is a beautiful conifer despite the name. Foliage actually smells pleasant! It is a medium size pyramidal evergreen tree with Yew-like leaves and purple nutmeg-like fruit on female plants. Needs light organic soil, adequate moisture...

Tovara virginiana 'Painter's Palette'
Common Name:
A multi colored variegated cultivar of a species which is widepread in eastern U.S. woodlands. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants) says the leaves of this variety have a V shaped reddish-pink blotch in the center of each leaf and new leaves are c...

Trachelospermum asiaticum
Common Name: Yellow Star Jasmine
Asian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close, but less climbing, relative of the popular "Confederate Jasmine" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen folia...

Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Confederate Jasmine
Twining evergreen vine with leaves bordered and spotted with white and pink. Leaves larger than most Trachelospermum jasminoides varieties. Flowers white, fragrant followed by long pods. A fine vine for arbor, trellis, or fence in mild regions. W...

Trachycarpus fortunei
Common Name: Windmill Palm
This fan leaf palm is native to eastern Asia but is grown worldwide. It is the most common palm seen northward and grows well in cool regions including the British Isles and coastal British Columbia. Good specimens have grown outdoors as far north a...

Trachystemon orientalis
Common Name:
This native of Japan is a coarse, large-leafed, effective groundcover for shady sites with good moist to dry soil where it can be a fairly rapid spreader. This plant is uncommon and little-known in the U.S. and we originally acquired it through the ...

Tripterygium regelii
Common Name: Regel's Threewingnut
Native to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, this hardy and vigorous scandent shrub is almost vinelike with reddish warty branches. It is deciduous and bears large clusters of yellowish or greenish white flowers in late summer followed by pale green three...

Trochodendron araliodes
Common Name: Wheel Tree
Large evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Asia. Very uncommon in cultivation in the U.S. though a relatively hardy evergreen of distinctive tiered habit and foliage that stands out among other evergreens. Plant in shade or semi-shady site...

Tsuga yunnanensis
Common Name: Yunnan Hemlock
This rare Hemlock from Yunnan Province in China was originally received from the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. It had been obtained from China but was not expected to be hardy in Massachusetts. It proved to be very well adapted to semi-shady s...

Tulbaghia violacea
Common Name: Society Garlic
Perennial from bulba which multiply. Leaves are linear and blue green with strong onion odor when crushed. Flowers on 1-2 foot tall stems are rosy lavender clusters blooming over a long period in spring and summer. Not hardy in cold climates, Soci...

Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'
Common Name: Variegated Society Garlic
Tulbaghia violacea 'Variegata' or 'Silver Lace' is an attractive variety of Tulbaghia violacea (which see) with white margined leaves....

Umbellularia californica
Common Name: California Bay
Glossy leaves, strong pungent odor when bruised. Sometimes grown as an ornamental tree. Wood is valued for fine woodworking. (See HRT)...

Ungnadia speciosa
Common Name: Mexican Buckeye
Deciduous small tree or large shrub with compound leaves and pink flowers in spring before the leaves. Blooming tree suggests Redbud (Cercis). Three marble size poisonous seeds in woody capsule. Adaptable large shrub for sun or semi-shade. Soil to...

Vaccinium arboreum
Common Name: Sparkleberry
Deciduous shrub or small tree to 25 feet. White spring flowers, good bark and form. (See DIR, WGS, S&W)...

Vaccinium crassifolium 'Wells Delight'
Common Name: Creeping Blueberry 'Wells Delight'
This evergreen creeping blueberry is a North Carolina State University selection from southeastern North Carolina named for the late Dr. B.W. Wells, noted North Carolina ecologist. It has small shiny leaves that are even smaller than typical for the...

Vaccinium darrowi 'John Blue'
Common Name: Florida Evergreen Blueberry 'John Blue'
A dense evergreen shrub with small blue-green leaves selected for its ornamental qualities by blueberry researchers at North Carolina State University. It makes an attractive garden subject with typical small blueberry flowers and fruits. It is nat...

Vaccinium ellottii
Common Name: Elliott's Blueberry
Graceful deciduous shrub to 10 feet. Small glossy leaves turn brilliant red in fall. Plant on well-drained acid soil. A very nice ornamental blueberry. Fruits small but edible. An excellent ornamental shrub but little-known in cultivation. Native ...

Vaccinium myrsinites
Common Name: Evergreen Blueberry
An upright growing dense evergreen shrub with very small glossy leaves. It produces small white to pink bell shaped flowers clusters in spring followed by blueberries which are small but tasty. It is native to, and should be planted in, well-draine...

Vaccinium stamineum
Common Name: Deerberry
A variable species of native blueberry with relatively large fruit on long pedicels. Leaves vary from green to very glaucous blue-green and fruits from pinkish green to brownish purple. The large berries are edible but not delicious. Plants offered...

Verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple'
Common Name: Trailing Verbena
A vigorous trailing perennial Verbena with dissected leaves and royal purple flowers. This variety found and selected at a homestead in Georgia has become a popular groundcover and garden plant. Long blooming and long-lived it deserves a place in t...

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Albo-Rosea'
Common Name: Culvers Root
A large imposing native perennial with pointed, toothed leaves 2'- 4'long in whorls around stem. Tiny pink flowers in dense racemes in late summer. Plant it in moist, fertile soil in a sunny site. A good plant for the back of the border. Native to...

Viburnum acerifolium
Common Name: Mapleleaf Viburnum
Adaptable native colony forming deciduous shrub to 5 feet. Extremely shade tolerant. Maple like leaves turn a unique lavender-pink fall color. Very tolerant of dry conditions. Birds like fruit. Although widespread in Eastern U.S. woodlands and an...

Viburnum ashei
Common Name: Ashe's Viburnum
Deciduous shrub with small serrated leaves. White flowers. Blue-black fruit. May be a Deep South form or subspecies of Viburnum dentatum. Taxonomy confusing and sometimes listed as Viburnum dentatum var. scabrellum, Viburnum semitomentosum, etc. ...

Viburnum atrocyaneum
Common Name:
Rare and little known evergreen shrub with dense habit. Small leathery leaves are glossy and emerge copper colored and mature to dark green. Steel blue fruit in fall. Introduced into England from the Himalayas in 1904 by Kingdon Ward and sometimes...

Viburnum awabuki 'Chindo'
Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
Selection made by the late Dr. J C Raulston in a school yard on Chindo Island, Korea. It was selected for its large red penduous fruit clusters. A large upright evergreen shrub to 20 feet with big shiny leathery leaves. Sometimes called Viburnum macr...

Viburnum bracteatum 'Emerald Luster'
Common Name: Bracted Viburnum
Attractive shrub with lustrous dark green deciduous leaves of firm texture. Creamy white flowers in spring. Leaves don't scorch in full sun. Appears to be drought tolerant. This is a horticultural selection of the very rare Viburnum bracteatum whi...

Viburnum cinnamomifolium
Common Name: Cinnamon Leaf Viburnum
A large evergreen shrub with large glossy oval leaves that are deeply veined and distinctive. Somewhat like the lower growing Viburnum davidii but much better adapted in the southern U.S. Large flat clusters of white flowers in late spring followed...

Viburnum foetidum var rectangulatum
Common Name: Himalayan Evergreen Viburnum
Rare evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with spreading often drooping branches. Glossy, relatively small leaves. White flowers in summer, scarlet fruit. Hillier says: "Large specimens in full fruit are extremely effective in autumn"....

Viburnum harryanum
Common Name: Sir Harry Veitch's Viburnum
Medium sized evergreen shrub of dense, bushy growth. Small dark green, almost round leaves are distinctive. Clusters of small white flowers in late spring. Introduced from China by E.H. Wilson in 1904 but virtually unknown in the U.S. Our stock ca...

Viburnum japonicum
Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
A handsome evergreen Viburnum with relatively large lustrous dark green foliage and dense habit. Flat clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring followed by red fruits. Probably first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders and still little-known here. Do...

Viburnum luzonicum
Common Name: Luzon Viburnum
Essentially evergreen shrub with leaves somewhat like Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). It is grown in the Houston area which is where we got it but is apparently little known elsewhere in the U.S. Grow in fertile, well drained soil in sun or semi shad...

Viburnum macrocephalum
Common Name: Chinese Snowball Viburnum
A splendid large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub producing very large "snowball" globes of sterile flowers which are first green and then white giving a great show in late spring. Allow ample space in sunny to semi shady location with good, well-d...

Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'
Common Name: Possumhaw Viburnum 'Winterthur'
An upright deciduous shrub. Selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens. Shiny, fairly large leaves and free-flowering. For wet to average soil. Creamy-white flowers. Berries turn from white to pink to blue and are enjoyed by birds. Aw...

Viburnum obovatum 'St. Paul'
Common Name: Walter Viburnum 'St. Paul'
An attractive somewhat pendulous form of our native Walter Viburnum. Viburnum obovatum and its selections are becoming increasingly popular landscape plants, especially in Florida. This selection by Nancy Bissett at The Natives Nursery in central F...

Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum'
Common Name: Dwarf Walter's Viburnum
Rounded mounding evergreen shrub with small leaves and abundant white flowers in spring. One of several increasingly popular dwarf selections of this fine species native to the southern U.S. (see also 'Whorled Class' and Miss Schiller's Delight') Th...

Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum 'Shasta'
Common Name: Doublefile Viburnum Selection
Dr. Michael Dirr highly recommends this "tremendous" introduction from Don Egolf's breeding program at U.S. National Arboretum. Large deciduous shrub with very showy white clusters of sterile and fertile florets atop spreading branches. Needs space ...

Viburnum prunifolium
Common Name: Blackhaw Viburnum
Attractive small tree with oval leathery deciduous leaves and showy flat topped clusters of white flowers followed blue fruits attractive to birds. Interesting very dark checkered bark on trunks. Plant in sun or semi shade. Soil should be well drai...

Viburnum rufidulum
Common Name: Rusty Blackhaw
A choice small tree somewhat like Viburnum prunifolium. Tardily deciduous glossy leaves. Clusters of white flowers followed by blue-black fruits eaten by birds. This is an excellent small specimen tree with year-round interest for sun or light sha...

Viburnum sieboldii 'Seneca'
Common Name: Siebold Viburnum

This medium to large shrub has lustrous dark green leaves which often hold on until late November. Seneca is the result from a self-pollination of V. sieboldii. Selected for abundant, large, pendant inflorescence and red f...


Viburnum x globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'
Common Name: Viburnum Hybrid
Small to medium evergreen shrub of dense rounded habit. White flowers in flat-topped clusters in late spring. Hybrid (V. calvum x V. davidii)of Chinese species. Originated at Hilliers Nursery in England. The seed parent, V. davidii, does not usual...

Viburnum x pragense (rhytidophyllum x utile)
Common Name: Prague Viburnum

Evergreen shrub which is hybrid between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile. Fast growing, hardy, and probably better landscape shrub than either parent. Dark green shiny leaves. Slightly fragrant flowers pink in bud opening white in sp...


Viola hederacea
Common Name: Tasmanian Trailing Violet
Sometimes known as Erpetion reniforme, this is a pretty little trailing plant with small kidney-shaped leaves and numerous little half white, half lilac-blue flowers on erect two to three inch stems. It grows well in shady or semi shady moist soil a...

Viola pubescens
Common Name: Smooth Yellow Violet
This woodland violet native to eastern North America is valued for the bright yellow flowers. Also known as Viola pennsylvanica and Viola eriocarpa. A nice little violet for the woodland garden or shady border and a surprise to all who think violet...

Viola walteri
Common Name: Walter's Violet
Named for early South Carolina botanist Thomas Walter, this Deep South violet is a good rock garden plant. It forms dense mats of small rounded heart shaped leaves that are light green with deep green veins. Leaves are purplish on the underside. M...

Vitex agnus-castus 'Shoal Creek'
Common Name: Chastetree
Small deciduous tree in South. Can be grown as a perennial in the North. Clusters of lilac flowers in summer. A lovely summer flowering tree native to southern Europe and western Asia. Plant in open site with well-drained soil. This variety, 'Shoa...

Vitex negundo
Common Name: Chastetree
Large deciduous shrub or small tree. Similar to Vitex agnus-castus but the five leaflets are very dissected and the panicles of blue flowers are more open. Overall more open, airy, and possibly more hardy than Vitex agnus-castus....

Vitex rotundifolia
Common Name: Roundleaf Vitex
A prostrate trailing shrub with rounded deciduous bluish green leaves about 2" in diameter. Bright blue flowers in late summer. A very good salt tolerant plant for seashore and dune planting but becoming invasive in some seaside areas of the Carol...

Vitex trifolia 'Variegata'
Common Name: Three Leaf Vitex
Deciduous shrub or small tree wih three leaflets with white margin variegation. Blue to purple flowers somewhat resembling lilac flowers. Probably more tender than V. agnus-castus. Native southeast Asia to Australia. Z. 8-10...

Vitis munsoniana
Common Name: Scrub Grape
Very attractive native grape vine with small shiny rounded deciduous leaves. Similar to Muscadine (V.rotundifolia) but smaller leaves and inedible small fruit. Good arbor vine for sunny location with well-drained soil. Native on dry sandy soils in...

Weigela florida 'Variegata'
Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
Relatively compact form of this old favorite garden shrub. Leaves are deciduous and are variegated with pale yellow or creamy white margins. Deep rose colored flowers late spring. This old-fashioned shrub in its many varieties is best used in the ga...

Wisteria frutescens
Common Name: American Wisteria
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of blue flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced by...

Wisteria frutescens var. nivea
Common Name: American Wisteria Selection
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of white flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced b...

Wisteria macrostachya 'Clara Mack'
Common Name: White Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack'
Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack' is a twining deciduous vine with compound leaves and hanging clusters of white flowers. This splendid white form of a normally blue-flowerd species has longer and later flower clusters than Wisteria frutescens, our oth...

Woodwardia areolata
Common Name: Netted Chainfern
Widespread in eastern North America on low grounds, swamps, and moist soils. Spreads by creeping and branching rootstocks to form colonies. Bright glossy green fronds are pinkish when new. Readily grown in moist shady situations with acid soil. De...

Xanthorhiza simplicissima
Common Name: Yellowroot
A curious shrub related to the Buttercup. Native to eastern U.S. Compound leaves are deciduous but turn bright yellow in the fall. Roots are bright yellow when cut. Typically grows in shady streamside sites which do not flood. Can be grown in hal...

Yucca campestris
Common Name: Plains Yucca
A clumping or sometimes solitary stem Yucca with narrow blue-green leaves 1-3 feet long. Stems lacking or up to 3 feet tall. Dense panicle of white bell-like flowers not held high above the leaves. A plant of very deep sandy soils or dunes in west...

Zamia pumila
Common Name: Coontie
Zamia pumila (umbrosa) is the form of this low cycad native in eastern Florida. It has stiff evergreen fern-like leaves from a large tuberous root which is the source of arrowroot starch and once much used by the Indians. A popular landscape plant i...

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
Common Name: Toothache Tree
Small to medium sized tree with shiny compound leaves and prickles on leaves and stems. Trunks develop curious thorn tipped corky projections. Greenish flower clusters followed by shiny black seeds. A good butterfly larval food plant. Primarily c...

Zenobia pulverulenta 'Woodlanders Blue'
Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the blue foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Our introduction, the 'Woodlanders Blue' selection with blue foliage is becoming more widely available. Zenobia was virtually unavailable f...

Zenobia pulverulenta (green)
Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the green foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Showy racemes of white bell-shaped flowers in spring. Moist sandy acid soil in sun or semi-shade. See also the 'Woodlanders Blue' selectio...

Zephyranthes atamasco
Common Name: Atamasco or Easter Lily
Grassy foliage. One of the hardiest wind lilies. Low native bulb plant with grass-like foliage and large white lily flowers on 1'stems in spring. Sometimes called Easter Lily and a choice plant for the native garden....

Zephyranthes candida
Common Name: August Rain Lily
This fall blooming Rain-lily produces masses of white flowers from grass-like clumps of foliage. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions but likes moisture. It spreads and naturalizes nicely in the South. It is native to Argentina. ...

Zephyranthes citrina
Common Name: Yellow Rain Lily
Rushlike, thick, with blunt edges, stiff. (See HRT, O&T) Three inch container....

Zephyranthes flavissima
Common Name: Yellow Rain lily
Bright golden star like lilies through the summer. These bulbs produce grass like foliage which is somewhat persistent through the winter. Not difficult to grow but likes moisture. Native to Argentina and Brazil....

Zephyranthes fosteri
Common Name: Foster's Pink Rain Lily
These bulbs produce grass-like leaves and masses of beautiful pink flowers somewhat like crocus. It is native to Mexico. It grows well in the South and flowers after summer rains....
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