Plant ID #7

1. Plant ID #7 Horticulture 2

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

6. 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

10. 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

14. 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

19. 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

23. 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

27. 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

31. 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

34. 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

38. 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 pea-sized black or white berries in autumn

42. 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

47. 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

50. 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