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Common Name: Silverbell, Carolina
Silverbell is a small to medium size deciduous tree native in the southeastern U.S.. It makes an outstanding landscape ornamental in places with deep, fertile, well-drained soil with ample moisture. It can be used much like the common D... |
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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...
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Common Name: Butterfly Ginger
This tall herbaceous perennial spreads by rhizomes. It bears showy spikes of very fragrant white flowers with a greenish or yellowish blotch. It blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves and spreads in ric... |
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Common Name: Willow-leaf Heimia
This spreading and much-branched smooth shrub looks very much like a Hypericum but is not related. It is actually related to Crepe Myrtle! The axillary flowers are yellow and followed by a dry capsule. This plant is said... |
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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 ... |
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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". It is not related... |
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Common Name: Red Rose-Mallow
This tall open perennial Hibiscus with maple-like (or Marijuana-like !) leaves has bright red 3-5 inch flowers with extended stamens. It is a striking ornamental Hibiscus that grows naturally in very wet sites in the southern U.S. but i... |
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Common Name: Scarlet Rose Mallow - White form
This tall perennial Hibiscus with maple-like or marijuana-like leaves typical of Hibiscus coccineus (which see) but this little-known cultivar has pure white flowers rather than red. Grows well in wet to moist soil i... |
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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 na... |
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Common Name: Great Rose Hibiscus
This is a tall perennial Hibiscus with gray-green soft pubescent foliage. The large pink flowers are very showy. This Hibiscus is native to very wet habitats in the Deep South but grows well in ordinary garden soil that is moist or irrigated. It s... |
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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 ...
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Rose-mallow, Pink
The Pink Rose-mallow is a close relative of Hibiscus moscheutos and occupies similar wetland habitats, mostly in the northeastern U.S. It is likewise an attractive garden perennial when grown in good soil with ample moisture and a sunny l... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Chinese Hat Plant
The Chinese Hat Plant is a viney shrub native to the Himalayas and southeast Asia. Leaves are thin, green, several inches long and 2 inches wide with a long tip and serrated edges. They are borne opposite or in whorls on long will... |
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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...
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Common Name: Yinger's Plantain Lily
This Hosta species was 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... |
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Common Name: Smooth Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
'Annabelle' is a selection of our native Hydrangea arborescens. It is a deciduous shrub to 5 or even 6 feet with very showy white snowball flower clusters in early summer. It was selected by the late Dr. J.C. McDaniel at t... |
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'
Oakleaf Hydrantgea is a large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, big panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, It is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. &... |
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Common Name: Texas Spiderlily[
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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....
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Common Name: Atlantic St. Johnswort
This Hypericum is 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. and is one of our favorite Hypericums. It... |
