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Common Name: American Beautyberry
American Beautyberry is a deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with rather large velvety leaves that are coarsely toothed and opposite on the stems. . The flowers are small, purple, and in clusters around stems at the leaf nodes. Th... |
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Common Name: Bodinier Beautyberry 'Profusion'
'Profusion' Beautyberry is an excellent Dutch cultivar of this hybrid Chinese deciduous shrub. The upright arching branches bear bronze-purple new growth which turns pinkish purple in fall. The abundant small purple berries are bo... |
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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 ...
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Common Name: Variegated Purple Beautyberry
'Splashy' is a 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 wh... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry, Taiwan
Deciduous shrub with showy purple fruits. This species of beautyberry is a good choice for gardens in warmer climate zones. For detailed informaion see: More Info |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush, Pine-leafed
Pine-leafed bottlebrush, as the name suggests, has needle-like leaves resembling pine foliage. This rather upright shrub is native to southeastern Australia. It is rather uncommon in cultivation, at least in the southern U.S. Thi... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Clemson'
This small to medium sized evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers is a native of Australia. Callistemons are generally considered subtropical plants but this one has survived outside for years at Clemson, SC., an area generall... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Cultivar
This bottlebrush is a 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. ... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers are 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 Sy... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Michael Lindsey'
Selected, introduced, and named by Allen Bush, Holbrook Farm & Nursery (now defunct), Fletcher, NC. This dense, rounded, & compact deciduous shrub has reddish brown flowers that may have a fruity fragrance. ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Julia Mackintosh'
This seedling selection of Camellia sasanqua which occurred here at Woodlanders was selected and propagated by George Mitchell and named for the late Julia Mackintosh who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders. I... |
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Common Name: Camellia 'Imura'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Imura' is a nice form of Camellia japonica with elegant ... |
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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. It is a famo... |
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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....
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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... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Tea-oil
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This less well-known species has less glossy leaves than most other... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Crimosn Candles
'Crimson Candles' is a fine hybrid camellia introduced by Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina. It is winter flowering with abundant small rose red blossoms which hold up well to below freezing nights. The plant has an uprigh... |
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Common Name: 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... |
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Common Name: Camellia 'Appleblossom'
A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of the late Fred Huette, a great plantsman and first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden. ... |
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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 ... |
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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 a relatively new selection of thi... |
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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...
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Common Name: Hybrid 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 plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'K... |
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Common Name: Camellia Hybrid, 'Donation'
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' and <... |
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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...
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Common Name: Pignut Hickory
A large deciduous tree of finer texture than Mockernut Hickory (C. tomentosa). Pignut Hickory is widespread in eastern U.S., but like other hickories it is rarely offered by nurseries. Grows well in good soil t... |
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Common Name: Showy Senna
This subtropical shrub has abundant bright yellow flowers in late fall. It is evergreen in zone 10 and stem hardy in zone 9. The seeds are said to be poisonous but not deadly. In zone 8 it may freeze bac... |
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Common Name: Chinese Chestnut
This bushy Chinese deciduous tree is widely grown as a substitute for the once widepread American Chestnut tree (C. dentata) that was essentially eliminated by the chestnut blight brought in from China in 1904. It produces large edib... |
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Common Name: Chinquapin, Alleghany
Deciduous large shrub occasionally tree-like. Oval serrated leaves and edible and very tasty nuts the size of a hazelnut enclosed in a spiny burr as with the related chestnut. Somewhat resistant to chestnut blight or better able to overcome it beca...
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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 di... |
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Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew
Cephalanthus is and evergreen conifer similar to Yew (Taxus). This variety is prostrate in growth habit and is a good substitute for Taxus in the South. Plant in moist but well-drained soil. It will tolerate drought once it is esta... |
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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 aft...
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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....
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Common Name: Sawara Falsecedar 'Shiva'
Described as a silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Atlantic Whitecedar, this plant was originally presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides. It now appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. It was found as a seedling ... |
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Common Name: Leatherleaf
Chamaedaphne is a thicket forming low evergreen ericaceous shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. It is native to the eastern U.S. where it grows in sandy, acid bogs. It is a very cold-hardy evergreen shrub... |
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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 fo... |
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Common Name: Fringetree, Chinese
A very ornamental small deciduous tree with heavy-textured oval glossy serrated leaves that look as though they would be evergreen. Abundant white feathery flowers in spring. Attractive light tan scaly bark. As an established tree in the landscape...
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Common Name: Indonesian Cinnamon
The Indonesian Cinnamon is an evergreen tree with glossy 3-4 inch long leaves. It's bark is the source of as much as 80% of the commercial Cinnamon sold in the U.S. This tree is native to southeastern Asia... |
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Common Name: Orchidspot Rockrose
This Rockrose is a low evergreen shrub to 4 feet. It is a hybrid with showy 2-3" wide purple flowers blotched with maroon. Rockroses are not roses and are not related. Plant this shrub in full sun and in well-drained so... |
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Common Name: Citrumelo, 'Swingle'
'Swingle' Citrumelo is a 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 ... |
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Common Name: Sour Orange
Sour Orange is widely grown as an ornamental and even as a street tree. It is somewhat naturalized in Florida. It is useful for making marmalade but not otherwise edible. This unnamed selection is propagated from a sing... |
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Common Name: Ichang Papeda
Thorny evergreen tree with white flowers and inedible rough yellow orange-like fruits with many large seeds. This species is probably the most cold hardy evergreen Citrus but probably not winter hardy above zone 7, possibly zone 8. The parent of a ...
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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 fruit... |
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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 ... |
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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 fr... |
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Common Name: Lemon, 'Meyer'
Small evergreen tree with fragrant purple tinted white flowers and large lemon-like fruits. A favorite container-grown citrus. The Meyer Lemon is probably a hybrid between a lemon and some other citrus. It was discovered near Peking, China in 1908... |
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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...
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Common Name: Harlequin Glorybower
This is a large decidous shrub or small tree that forms thickets from root suckers unless planted in an 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-sha... |
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Common Name: Chinese Clethra
Chinese Clethra is similar to Clethra barbinervis (which see) but it is not so tall. The leaves are dark glossy green and widest in the middle. This Clethra bears 5-7 inch long racemose panicles of f... |
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Common Name: Variegated Cleyera
This evergreen shrub is related to Camellia. This 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... |
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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 i... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Trumpet Vine, Argentine Purple
This is a vigorous evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine. It bears glossy leaves and 5" long purple trumpet flowers in spring. It climbs by tendrils. It is relatively care free in warm climates but needs water in prolong... |
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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 ...
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Common Name: Conradina, Gray Mound
Conradina canescens is a low dense evergreen mint shrub with short, soft, needle-like leaves and white to blue-gray tubular flowers about 3/4 inch long. The plant is highly variable with respect to growth habit and foliage color.... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Chinese Dogwood
This Chinese dogwood is a spreading small to medium size deciduous tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. It flowers about a month later than ou... |
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Common Name: American Smoke Tree
Our native smoketree is an uncommon small to medium size deciduous tree. Its common name is from the appearance of smoke when in fruit. It has broad oval leaves which are larger than the more commonly grown... |
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Common Name: Hawthorn, Blueberry
This is a beautiful round topped small deciduous tree with small shiny leaves. White flowers in spring followed in fall by bright blue fruit. This fruit color is unique as other haws have red or yellow fruit. Blueberry Haw is adapted to moist or w...
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Common Name: Mayhaw, Western
Small deciduous tree with abundant white flowers in early spring soon followed by edible fruit which makes excellent jelly. Native to intermittant ponds but grows well on sites not subject to flooding. Very similar to Crataegus aestivalis but nativ...
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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...
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Common Name: Cockspur Thorn
This spiny sprawling or vining shrub has glossy evergreen leaves. It is sometimes classified as a Maclura and is related to our Osage Orange. Apparently widespresd in eastern Asia down to Australia it see... |
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Common Name: Chinafir
Chinafir is a large, pyramidal, often multi-trunked coniferous evergreen tree with rather long flattened needles in more or less two dimensional arrangement on twigs. It bears interesting small cones and is an attrative and somewhat curious ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Scrub Titi
Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered in the early 20th century by J.K. Small. It occurred in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but was lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we redis... |
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Common Name: Titi, Littleleaf
Cyrilla parvifolia is considered by some botanists to be a form of Cyrilla racemiflora but it is very distinct in having much smaller evergreen leaves and finer branching habit. It is found in northwest Florida. This selection is... |
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Common Name: Leatherwood
'Graniteville' Titi is a low growing selection of Cyrilla racemiflora (which see). This Woodlanders introduction was propagated from an almost prostrate plant we found some years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slo... |
