Transcript Group 7
Plant ID #7 Horticulture 2 Impatiens • Impatiens – Foliage: alternate, upper leaves sometimes opposite; lanceolate-ovate; green or reddish green on both surfaces – Flowers: Orange, pink, purple, red, white – Height: 8 to 24 inches – Spread: 10 to 12 inches – Form: Spreading, rounded, flat topped – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Unique Characteristic: good hanging baskets, double or single flowers – Exposure: Sun to Part shade – Landscape: border, container, edging Iris x germanica var florentina • Bearded Iris – Foliage: perennial; simple; bold sword shaped with entire margins – Flowers: most colors; flowers in summer – Height: 4 to 48 inches – Spread: 6 inches – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: flat fan shaped – Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: fragrant Iris xiphium • Dutch Iris – Foliage: grass like and wispy – Flowers: slim orchid-like petals, each accented by a complimentary color splotch – Height: 3 feet – Spread: 8 inches – Form: upright loose – Leaf Arrangement: whorled from bulb – Unique Characteristic: – Zone: 5 to 9 Juniperus conferta – Shore Juniper – Foliage: evergreen ground cover; aromatic gray green or blue green needlelike leaves about a half inch long and borne in fascicles of three – Flowers: blue berries – Height: 12-24 inches – Spread: 10 feet – Form: low spreading ground cover – Leaf Arrangement: groups of three needles – Landscape Use: border, edging, foundation – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: forms dense mat Juniperus horizontalis ‘Plumosa’, ‘Bar Harbor’, ‘Wiltonii’ • Creeping Juniper – Foliage: evergreen groundcover; Feathery gray-green foliage; winter color is silvery plum; scale-like leaves in opposite pairs – Flowers: non-flowering – Height: 1 to 2 feet – Spread: 8 to 10 feet – Form: flat branching – Leaf Arrangement: opposite pairs of scales-like leaves – Landscape Use: border, edging, foundation – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: good for retaining walls Kalanchoe blossfeldiana • Kalanchoe – Foliage: Succulent. Fleshy leaves, opposite on stem, glossy dark green with toothed edges – Flowers: Clusters of tiny tubular flowers on top of leafless stalk last for several weeks; pink; red; yellow; salmon – Height: Up to 1.5 feet tall depending on variety – Spread: 1.5 feet – Form: – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Unique Characteristic: flower with 3-4 weeks of 14 hour dark days – Zone: 10-11 Lagerstroemia indica cv. • Crepe Myrtle – Foliage: deciduous tree, simple, oval shape with entire margins – Flowers: white, red, pink on panicles; summer to fall bloom – Height: 10-20 feet – Spread: 6-12 feet – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: border, accent – Unique Characteristic: very showy flowers Ligustrum japonicum cv • Japanese Privet – Foliage: evergreen; 2 to 4 inches; oblong; simple, ovate shape with entire margins – Flowers: white; showy; spring flowering; summer flowering; unpleasant fragrance; very small flowers – Height: 8 to 12 feet – Spread: 5-7 feet – Form: round; spreading; vase shape – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Landscape Use: border, screen – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: thick vigorous plant that makes a good screen Liquidambar styraciflua • Sweetgum – Foliage: deciduous tree, simple, palmately veined, 4 to 6 inches across with 5 to 7 lobes (look like stars), and a finely serrate margin – Height: 60-90 feet – Spread: 40-60 feet – Form: medium to large tree to 80 feet tall with a straight stem and a pyramidal crown • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate – Landscape Use: Border, shade – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: spiny "gumballs“; used for shade and fall color; can get with no fruit Liriope muscari • Liriope – Foliage: simple, linear with entire margins; dark green or variegated , ribbon-like foliage – Flowers: spikes of small purple, violet or white flowers rise from the center of clumps – Height: 12- 15 inches – Spread: 12- 18 inches – Form: upright to weeping grass – Leaf Arrangement: grass like – Exposure: Shade – Landscape Use: border, edging, foundation – Unique Characteristic: Flowers are followed by peasized black or white berries in autumn Loropetalum chinensis • Chinese Fringe Flower – Foliage: finely textured evergreen shrub – Flowers: arranged in small clusters with each having 4 narrow strap like petals that droop downward – Height: as high as 12 feet – Spread: 6-8 feet – Form: loose open form; spreading habit with branches arranged in horizontal layers – Leaf Arrangement: alternating – Landscape Use: accent, border, foundation – Exposure: partial shade – Unique Characteristic: Drought tolerant Magnolia grandiflora • Southern Magnolia – Foliage: evergreen; 5 to 10", simple, dark green leathery leaves; underside often has a cinnamon-brown pubescence – Flowers: 8 to 12" fragrant, creamy white flowers in summer; bright red seeds in fall; blooms May- June – Height: 40 to 50 feet – Spread: 25-35 feet – Form: Dense, conical shape; symmetrical – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: border, shade, specimen – Exposure: sun – Unique Characteristic: leaves difficulty to manage; dramatic with brick Magnolia x soulangiana • Saucer Magnolia – Foliage: simple, oblong to obovate, 3 to 6 inches long, entire margin, green above, paler and fuzzy below – Flowers: large (4 to 8 inches) and showy, light pink to nearly purple petals, appearing in mid-spring – Height: 10-20 feet – Spread: 10-20 feet – Form: Upright in youth; often multi-stemmed; low, wide spreading branches; rounded at maturity – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: border, specimen – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: spectacular blooms in spring landscape Malus sp. • Flowering Crabapple – Foliage: Simple, ovate shape with sharply serrated margins – Flowers: Flowers are classified as single (five petals), semi-double (six-ten petals), or double (more than 10 petals). Blossom colors range from pearly white through delicate pinks to a deep red, coral or salmon. – Height: 8 to 40 feet – Spread: 10 to 25 feet – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: sun – Landscape Use: Border, specimen – Unique Characteristic: Apples and crabapples are in the rose family, Rosaceae, in the genus Malus. Crabapples are differentiated from apples based on fruit size. If fruit is two inches in diameter or less, it is termed a crabapple. If the fruit is larger than two inches, it is classified as an apple. Ilex x “Nellie R. Stevens” • Nellie R Stevens Holly – Foliage: – Flowers: – Height: – Spread: – Form: – Leaf Arrangement: – Unique Characteristic: – Exposure: – Landscape: