Horticulture I Plant ID

TREES

Acer rubrum• Red maple – Is a large deciduous tree with red flowers

in early spring before the leaves appear. It’s leaves are dark green w/ gray color under the leaves. (3-5 lobes on the leaves & gray bark)

Acer palmatum•Common - Japanese MapleCharacteristics: *Maple-like leaves deeply lobed, with 5-9 lance-like, ovate lobes, 2-6" wide.

Betula nigra•Common- River Birch – A Medium sized deciduous, four trunks or stems with thin brown bark peeling and trunks.

Cercis canadensis• Common - Eastern Red Bud/Judas Tree- A Small deciduous tree with

heart-shaped leaves and 3-5 inch long brown bean-type pods in the

fall; pink-purple colored flowers.

Cornus florida•Flowering Dogwood- A small deciduous tree with white flowers called bracts with brown color at the tips, red berries and very crooked growth trunks/branches. Native or “growing in the wild”. Specimen tree.

Lagerstroemia indicacv.•Crape Myrtle-Smooth tan bark, deciduous tree or shrub, flowers all summer and into early fall. Red, purple, white, pink

Liquidambar styraciflua•Sweetgum – A deciduous with dark green star shaped leaves and prickly balls/burrs. Leaves turn yellow, orange, red and purple in autumn.

Magnolia grandiflora •Southern Magnolia – large shinny leaves, 6-9 inch white flowers with cone like pods of bright red seeds.

Malus sp. or cv.•Flowering Crabapple – A border tree, medium sized

deciduous tree with flowers and 1 – 2 inch diameter fruit. Green, red, or purple leaves in summer.

Pinus strobus•Eastern White Pine – Clusters of needle like leaves about

4-inches long. 5 needles per cluster, 4 – 8 inch curving brown cones under the tree.

Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’•Japanese Flowering Cherry- Small deciduous tree with pink double flowers. Used as an accent plant.

Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’•Bradford Pear- Medium-sized deciduous tree, white flowers in spring, reddish purple leaves in autumn, grow in a symmetrical shape with little or no pruning.

Quercus palustris•Pin Oak-

Deciduous tree, about 50 ft. tall, leaves have 5 to 7 lobes and 3 or 4 bristle tips on each lobe, has acorns, brilliant red in autumn.

Quercus phellow•Willow Oak-Deciduous tree, has small acorns, narrow green leaves, grows about 60 ft. tall.

SHRUBS/BUSHES

Abelia X grandiflora•Common - Glossy abelia – This plant is a Medium

evergreen shrub with reddish-green 1 inch long, glossy triangular leaves with small clusters of bugle shaped white flowers.

Berberis thumbergii•Common - Japanese Barberry – A medium size deciduous shrub with 1-inch long leaves, small spines at leaf nodes, and red berries.

X Cupressocyparis leylandii•Leyland Cypress- an evergreen, about 5o ft. tall

with scale type leaves and short ½ inch cones. Looks like a cedar tree.

Euonymus japonica or ‘Variegata’

•Evergreen Euonymus – Shrub – 1 ½ - 3” long leaves, half as wide as long. Green, green/golden edged, green white edged

Forsythia X intermedia• Border Forsythia – Large deciduous shrub with many bright yellow flowers in early spring.

Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’• Dwarf Yaupon Holly- Dwarf evergreen shrub, 2ft. high X 2ft. wide

with dark green mature leaves about ½ inch to 1 inch long. Stems are gray.

Juniperus horizontalis ‘Plumosa,’ ‘Bar Harbor or ‘Wiltonii’or Blue Rug

• Creeping Juniper “Blue Rug”- evergreen ground cover with silvery-blue scale type leaves.

Ligustrum japonicum cv.

• Japanese Privet- large evergreen shrub, dark green leaves that are 3-inch long and 1 ½ inch wide with raised veins underneath. ¼ inch dark purple berries with a hard seed inside.

Myrica cerifera• Wax Myrtle- large evergreen shrub, yellowish green leaves about 2-3 inches long with

serrated margins near the leaf tips, clusters of small waxy-gray berries.

Rhododendron catawbiense• Catawba Hybrid Rhododendron

• Grows in the shade in the mountains of North Carolina

• Dark green leaves that are 5 inches long and 2 inches wide & has many large flowers

Rhododendron kiusianum or Rhododendron obtusumjaponicum

• Azalea- Large evergreen, dark green 5-inch long by 2-inch wide leaves, shade loving, grows wild in the edge of the forest and by the roadside in NC mountains, many flowers.

Tropical

Aracaria heterophylla• Common - Norfolk Island Pine - An Interior office plant that usually

grows about 4 ft tall and looks similar to a little pine or cedar tree with dark green leaves.

Chlorophytum comosum cv.

• Common - Spider Plant – New plants develop from shoot tips –18” long and ¾” wide leaves – green with yellow line down the middle.

Dieffenbachia maculata• Dumbcane – An Interior plant with large variegated, green-and

cream-colored large leaves on a thick trunk.

Euphorbia pulcherrima cv.• Poinsettia – Sold at Christmas, Usually red, but also pink or white.

Originates from Mexico. Colored bracts or modified leaves. Indoor plant.

Ficus benjamina• Weeping fig or benjamina fig – indoor plant, drooping branches with shinny

pointed leaves and aerial roots on the branches

Nephrolepis exaltata cv• Boston Fern- interior plant usually in hanging baskets. Large green leaf-like

growth that look similar to a long vein down the middle. Many little leaf-like structures called fronds, no flowers or seeds.

Pelargonium X hortorum

• Geranium – An indoor/outdoor flowering plant, used in hanging baskets and pots, red, white, pink, multiple colored. Flowers have a long petiole, popular Mother’s Day and Easter flower. Number 1 bedding plant. Leaves have a scalloped edge.

Perennial

Hosta sp.Hosta- Deciduous ground cover, 3 inch wide by 7 inch long leaves. Leaves are I a whorled pattern. Leaves are dark green to yellowish white mixed with green “variegated”. Grows in the shade.