Transcript Group 3

Plant ID #3
Horticulture 2
Chamaecyparis pisifera
• Gold Mop
– Foliage: medium- to large-sized evergreen
shrub; scale-like or awl-like leaves press
close to the thready stems
– Height: 3'-20' tall x similar widths, depending
upon cultivar
– Form: round
– Exposure: full sun
– Landscape Use: accent plant, borders,
foundations
Chameadorea elegans
• Parlor Palm
– Foliage: Fan like leaf; compound; linear leaflets with
entire margins
– Flowers: rare
– Height: May grow up to 15 feet outside, rarely over 5
feet when grown as an indoor plant
– Spread: Can be up to 2 feet at the base when
cultivated outside
– Form: weeping
– Leaf Arrangement: alternative
– Landscape Use: container; interiorscape
– Exposure: Sun
– Unique Characteristic: indoor plant; good for air
pollution removal
Chlorophytum comosum
• Spider Plant
– Foliage: grass-like, evergreen perennial in the lily family; linear,
8-16 in long; simple, linear shape with entire margins
– Flowers: Small white flowers are borne along outward arching
wiry stalks
– Height: 1-2’
– Spread: 1-3’
– Form: weeping
– Leaf Arrangement: whorled
– Exposure: sun
– Landscape Use: Container, Hanging basket, interiorscape
– Unique Characteristic: After blooming and fruiting, little tufts of
leaves - baby spider plants - develop on the stalks.
Chrysanthemum morifolium
• Florist Chrysanthemum
– Foliage: simple; oval shape with deeply lobed
margins
– Flowers: large flower head; red, orange, yellow, white,
lavender
– Height: 1 to 5 feet
– Spread: up to 4 feet
– Form: Short lived bushy perennial
– Leaf Arrangement: alternate
– Exposure: sun or part sun
– Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape
– Unique Characteristic: Commonly used in flower
arrangements; popular potted flowering plant. MUM
FEST
Chrysanthemum x superbum
• Shasta Daisy
– Foliage: simple, linear shape, entire at base with
serrated tip margins
– Flowers: white with yellow centers; single and double
flowered
– Height: 3 to 4 feet
– Spread: 2 to 3 feet
– Form: upright
– Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun
– Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging
– Leaf Arrangement: whorled
– Unique Characteristic: need some support to
keep them from falling over; deciduous
Clematis x jackmanii
• Clematis Hybrids
– Foliage: compound, 3 ovate leaflets with entire
margins
– Flowers: produce flowers on the current season's
growth; abundant and large, to 7 in across, with 4-6
petal-like sepals; single or double
– Height: 10 feet in one season
– Spread: vine; twining growth
– Form: vine; climbing with trendels
– Exposure: Sun
– Landscape Use: Border, container, edging
– Leaf Arrangement: opposite
– Unique Characteristic: 400 named cultivars of hybrid
clematis
Codiaeum variegatum
• Croton
– Foliage: evergreen; diversity of leaf shapes and
colors; all variegated in colors; simple; entire margins
– Flowers: tiny inconspicuous star-shaped yellow
flowers
– Height: 10 feet
– Spread: varies greatly
– Form: upright; shrub
– Leaf Arrangement: alternate
– Exposure: Sun
– Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape
– Unique Characteristic: house plants stay small; milky
sap
Coleus x hybridus
• Coleus
– Foliage: late spring to fall; simple, ovate
shape with crenate margins
– Flowers: spike, whitish-purple in summer
– Height: 8 to 30 inches depending on variety
– Spread: 6 to 24 inches depending on variety
– Form: upright, inverted pyramid
– Leaf Arrangement: opposite
– Landscape Use: Border, container, edging
– Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun
– Unique Characteristic: grown for foliage
Cornus florida
• Flowering Dogwood
– Foliage: deciduous; mid-green leaves; 3-6 in long,
turn red and purple in autumn; ovate shape with
entire, wavy margins
– Flowers: Blooms before leaves come out; white or
pink; single, white in early spring; indented at tip
– Height: 30 feet
– Spread: 35 feet
– Form: short trunk with full rounded crown with
horizontal branches often in layered tiers
– Leaf Arrangement: opposite
– Landscape Use: Border
– Exposure: Light shade
– Unique Characteristic: Flowering Dogwoods are one
of our most common under story trees. State Flower
Cornus kousa
– Chinese Dogwood
– Foliage: 2 to 4", simple, ovate shape with entire
margins; reddish purple to scarlet fall color;
deciduous; hairy underneath; no veins after midpoint
– Flowers: Pointy petals; blooms about 2 to 3 weeks
after C. florida; pinkish red to red fruit in late summer
– Height: 20 to 30 feet
– Spread: 15 to 20 feet
– Form: Vase shape in youth; rounded with horizontal
branching with age
– Leaf Arrangement: opposite
– Landscape Use: border
– Exposure: light shade
– Unique Characteristic: AKA Kousa Dogwood
Cupressocyparis x leylandii
• Leyland Cypress
– Foliage: evergreen; scale-like leaves with entire
margins
– Flowers: not showy; brown cones
– Height: 50-60 feet
– Spread: 12 to 15 feet
– Form: Upright; pyramidal
– Leaf Arrangement: alternate
– Landscape Use: border, screen
– Exposure: sun
– Unique Characteristic: Short-term screen plant;
disease and insect prone; easy to transplant; salt
tolerant
Crassula ovata
• Jade Plant
– Foliage: Succulent, fleshy leaves are round or oval,
dark green, blue-gray or edged in red depending on
species and cultivar; waxy outer layer;
– Flowers: Clusters of star-shaped white or pink flowers
will appear on mature plants in the winter
– Height: 5 feet indoors (extremely slow growth)
– Spread: same as height
– Form: upright (shaped like little tree)
– Leaf Arrangement: opposite
– Exposure: full sun or bright filtered light
– Landscape Use: container or interiorscaping
– Unique Characteristic: don’t over water!
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