Leaves Flashcards
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Abelia x grandiflora - Glossy Abelia
May be 3-4 leaves per node on reddish new growth
Leaves have reticulate venation, are opposite
Bell-shaped, white flowers; persistent reddish calyx
Small shrub with exfoliating bark
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Achillea sp. - Yarrow
Leaves pinnatifid, fern-like in appearance.
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Agarista populifolia - Flordia Leucothoe
LEAVES glossy, deep green, lanceolate 2-3” long
FLOWERS white, urceolate, fragrant, below foliage
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Ajuga reptans - Bugleweed
Low, mat-forming groundcover
Acaulescent, spatulate leaves in basal rosette
2-lipped flowers on erect spikes in spring
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Aglaonema sp. - Chinese Evergreen
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Anethum graveolens - Dill
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Aquilegia sp. - Columbine
Flowers with 5 elongate spurs***
Erect herbs with basal mound of leaves, flowering apex
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Artemisia x `Powis Castle’ - Powis Castle Artemisia
Bushy mound of silvery, dissected foliage.
Leaves silvery-tomentose, finely dissected
Flowers yellow in minute, drooping heads
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Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed
Erect perennial herb with spiralling narrow leaves
Flat-topped, axillary cymes of orangish flowers**
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Aspidista elatior - Cast-iron Plant
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Aster novi-belgii
Numerous heads of purplish flowers
Ray flowers conspicuous, violaceous; disc yellow
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Astilbe x arendsii - Astilbe, Goats Beard
Herb with ternately compound leaves
Leaves with swollen petiole joints*
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Aucuba japonica - Japanese Aucuba, Spotted Laurel
Leaves glossy, coriaceous, elliptic and OPPOSITE
Leaves entire or dentate on green stems
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Berberis julianae - Wintergreen Barberry
Leaves evergreen and in clusters on short shoots
Leaves coriaceous, concolorous and sharply serrate **
Stems with 3 spines at each node
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Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’ - Golden Aurea Japanese Barberry
•deciduous shrub with ovate leaves
•yellow flowers in spring
•red berries in the fall
•twiggy, dense habit
Has striking yellow foliage. Will turn yellow-green in shade.
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Berberis thunbergii var. atropurpurea - Red Barberry
•deciduous shrub with ovate leaves
•single spine at each node
•yellow flowers in spring
•red berries in the fall
•twiggy, dense habit
A naturally-occuring variety that has reddish foliage that tends to fade to green during the summer.
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Buddleja davidii - Butterfly-Bush
*opposite, simple leaves
*tomentose underside on leaves
*cane-like growth
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Buxus microphylla var. japonica - Japanese Boxwood
Leaves opposite, apex rounded
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Buxus sempervirens - American Boxwood
Leaves opposite, apex pointed
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Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruiticosa’ - Old English Boxwood
- opposite leaves distinguish it from Ilex crenata which has similar appearance, but alternate leaves
- dense evergreen habit
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Callicarpa dichotoma - Purple Beautyberry
Small shrub, leaves opposite
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Caladium bicolor - Caladium
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Calycanthus floridus - Common Sweetshrub
Leaves are opposite*, grey-green & pubescent underneath
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Camellia japonica - Japanese Camellia, Spring Blooming Camellia
Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, serrate **
Leaves are bigger than the Sasanqua
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**Camellia sasanqua - Fall Blooming Camellia**
Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, crenate \*
Leaves are smaller than the Japonica
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**Campsis grandiflora - Chinese Trumpetcreeper**
Vine with pinnately compound leaves
Leaflets coarsely tooth
Flowers orange, trumpet-shaped, yellow within\*\*
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Canna x gereralis - Canna
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**Cephalotaxus harringtonia - Japanese Plum Yew**
Grey bands on the back while all chamaecyparis have white bands on their back
\*2 white glaucousbands below
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**Chaenomeles speciosa - Flowering Quince**
Broad, kidney-shaped stipules at leaf bases\*\*
Flowers have 5 STALKED petals, appear before leaves\*
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**Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Crippsii'- Crippsii Hinoki Falsecypress**
* scale like leaves
* white X-like lines on underside of scales
These forms are among the most common nursery selections with growth that is yellow or tipped yellow
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**Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis' - Dwarf Hinoki Falsecypress**
•scale like leaves
•white X-like lines on underside of scales
Foliage is thick, dark green in color and arranged on "wavy" branches.
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**Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard' - Boulevard Japanese Falsecypress**
Gymnosperm with bluish, soft pliable, linear leave •scale like leaves
•white lines on underside of scales
A large shrub or small tree with soft, needle-like foliage (juvenile form) that is heavy-textured and blue-grey in color.
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**Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop' - Golden Mop Japanese Falsecypress**
* scale like leaves
* white lines on underside of scales
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**Clematis x jackmanii - Jackman group, Jackman Clematis**
Deciduous woody vine with opposite, pinnately compound leaf\*\*
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**Clethra alnifolia - Summersweet Clethra**
fragrant racemes of white flowers
blooms mid to late summer
persistent fruit capsules
Serrated leaves are usually entire toward base
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Codiaeum variegatum 'Pictum' - Croton
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**Conoclinium coelestinum - Hardy Ageratum**
Erect herb with clusters of small heads of tubular flowers
Flowers bluish-purple
Leaves opposite, deltoidly ovate, crenately serrat
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**Coreopsis lanceolata - Coreopsis**
Erect herb with opposite, narrow leaves
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**Cortaderia selloana - Pampas Grass**
Leaves areelongated, whip-like, very sharp on edges
Inflorescence is like a silvery-whiteplume ofr group of feathers
Leaf midrib not white as miscanthus
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**Cotoneaster dammeri - Bearberry Cotoneaster**
Low-growing evergreen shrub with prostrate twigs
Small, elliptic-oblong leaves on dwarf shoots
Red berry has 5-pointed star at end
Branching occurs in all planes
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**Cotoneaster salicifolius - Willowleaf Cotoneaster**
Low-growing, fountain-like, evergreen shrub
Branching occurs in 1 plane- herringbone pattern \*\*
Red berry with 5-pointed star at end
Alternate, elliptic-oblong leaves
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Crocus sp. - Crocus
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Cupressocyparis leylandii - Leyland Cypress
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Dahlia x hortensis - Dahlia
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**Deutzia gracilis - Slender Deutzia**
•small mounded deciduous shrub
•opposite leaf arrangement
•unequal serrated leaf margins
•white flowers in late May
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**Dicentra spectabilis - Japanese Bleeding Heart**
Petals heart-shaped with reflexed apical lobe\*\*\*
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Dieffenbachia maculata - Dieffenbachia
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**Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove**
Perennial herb with basal rosette of downy leaves
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Dracaena sp. - Dracaena
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**Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower**
Erect herb with terminal, brown-domed heads
Ray flowers in 1-2 rows, purplish, spreading-drooping
Leaves rough to touch
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**Euonymus alatus 'Compactus' - Dwarf Burning Bush**
•buds are imbricate, brownish green
* rounded, horizontal branching habit
* bright red fall color
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**Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' - Dwarf Japanese Euonymus**
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**Fatshedera lizei - Tree Ivy**
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**Fatsia japonica - Japanese Fatsia**
Evergreen shrub with palmately-lobed leaves\*\*
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Festuca ovina var. glauca - Blue Fescue
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Ficus sp. - Weeping Fig, Rubber Plant
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**Forsythia x intermedia - Border Forsythia**
Leaves are lanceolate, toothed, with gland at apex\*\*\*
Branches are square, 4-ridged, BROWN\*\*
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**Fothergilla major `Mt. Airy' - Mt. Airy Large Fothergilla**
Whiteish back to its leaves
rounded teeth on leaf margin toward apex
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**Gaillardia x grandiflora - Blanket Flower**
Erect herb with terminal head, center reddish, flattened dome-shaped
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**Gardenia jasminoides 'Radicans'/'Prostrada' - Radicans Gardenia**
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**Gardenia jasminoides - Gardenia, Formerly Gardenia augusta**
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**Gelsemium sempervirens - Carolina Yellow Jessamine**
Thin, wiry, evergreen vine that climbs by twining\*
Leaves are shiny green, opposite and lanceolate\*
Flowers are golden yellow, funnelform, axillary
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**Hedera helix - English Ivy**
Leaves alternate, palmately l3-5 lobed & venation
Evergreen groundcover or climbing vine by adventitous rootlets
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**Helleborus orientalis - Lenton Rose**
Flowers nodding, petaloid sepals,
Short plant with stiff, large, evergreen leaves \*\*
Leaves are palmately divided into many leaflets\*\*
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**Heuchera sanguinea - Coralbells**
Acaulescent herb with kidney-shaped, peltatre leaves
Tall scapes with small bell-shaped flowers
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**Hibiscus syriacus - Rose-of-Sharon**
large, tropical looking, 5-petaled flowers
erect, spreading habit with upright branches
3-lobed leaves are 2-4 inches long
simple, alternate, coarsely toothed leaves
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**Hosta sp. - Plantain Lily**
Acaulescent herb with parallel-veined leaves
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Hyacinthus orientalis - Hyacinth
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**Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris - Climbing Hydrangea**
Vine with opposite sub heart-shaped leaves\*\*
Vine climbing by adventitous rootlets, bark peelin
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**Hydrangea macrophylla - Bigleaf Hydrangea**
stems emerge from ground with few branches
showy corymbs of flowers in summer
large opposite, serrated leaves
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**Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora' - Grandiflora Panicle Hydrangea**
opposite serrate leaves, whorled at branch tips
large, cone-shaped inflorescence
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**Hydrangea quercifolia - Oakleaf Hydrangea**
unique, oak-shaped leaf
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**Ilex cornuta 'Carissa' - Carissa Holly**
Cupping syndrome
Translucent rim around leaf margin
Single spine at leaf apex
Leaf shiny,dark green above, flat olive beneath
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**Ilex cornuta 'Needlepoint' - Needlepoint Holly**
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**Ilex cornuta `Dwarf Burford' - Dwarf Burford Holly**
Leaves alternate, dark green, and bullate
Leaves oblong (= margins are parallel)
Leaves with single spine (at the apex) \*
Stems yellow-green
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**Ilex crenata 'Compacta' - Compact Japanese Holly**
rounded habit
Leaves alternate, simple, flat, obovate
Lustrous dark green leaves, crenate-serrate margin
Stem's new growth is purple
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**Ilex crenata 'Helleri' - Helleri Japanese Holly**
Yellow stems
Dwarf mounding shrub to 4 feet tall, alternate leaves
Leaves alternate, crenate, evergreen, small (1-2.5 cm long)
Leaves dotted with black glands on undersurface
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**Ilex crenata 'Soft Touch' - Soft Touch Japanese Holly**
**Smallest leaf of all the Hollys and softest touch**
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**Ilex crenata 'Steeds' - Steeds Japanese Holly**
Pyrimidal shape
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**Ilex crenata `Sky Pencil' - Sky Pencil Japanese Holly**
Fastigiate growth form
Leaves alternate, glossy, dark green
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**Ilex glabra - Inkberry Holly**
Very little foliage at the base
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**Ilex opaca - American Holly**
Dull-dark green leaves are both entire and spiny\*\*
Spines are evenly spaced, long and sharp
Leaves usually have a dull, dirty look
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**Ilex verticillata - Winterberry Holly**
Doesn't really look like a Holly
Deciduous shrubby holly with persistent red berries
Berry has a terminal black dot, not a 'fly'
Leaves serrate, pubescent on veins beneath
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**Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' - Dwarf Yaupon Holly**
Grey stems
Dense evergreen shrub with gray twigs
Leaves glossy, dark green above, light green below
Leaf margins crenate, no black glands beneath
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**Ilex vomitoria 'Pendula' - Weeping Yaupon Holly**
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**Ilex x 'Mary Nell' - Mary Nell Holly**
**All leaves are uniform compared to the "Nellie" which are not**
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**Ilex x `Nellie R. Stevens' - Nellie R. Stevens Holly**
Bullate leaves with 1-3 spines along each margin
Leaves consistently variable in number of spines
Abundant red fruit
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**Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri' - Foster Holly**
Pyramidal
Leaves alternate, dark green, coriaceous
Leaves with spines on upper half \*\*
Leaf base cuneate (not attenuate!)
Persistent red berries \*
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**Ilex x attenuata 'Savannah' - Savannah Holly**
Evenly spaced spines mid-leaf to apex
Pale green, spinose\* leaves
Small tree, loose and rounded to pyramidal
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**Illicium parviflorum - Small Anise-Tree**
Smells like liquerish
New leaves are soft yellow-green
Adult leaves are olive green, 2-4 inches long
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Iris sp. - Iris
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**Itea virginica - Virginia Sweetspire**
Green to reddish-purple stem (on sun side) with crescent shaped leaf scars
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**Jasminum floridum - Showy Jasmine**
Semi-evergreen shrub with arching, quadrangular stems\*\*
Leaves are alternate and ternately compound \*\*\*
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**Jasminum nudiflorum - Winter Jasmine**
Semi-evergreen shrub with arching,green,quadrangular stems\*\*
Leaves are opposite, ternately compound\*\*
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**Juniperus chinensis 'Robusta Green' - Robusta Green Chinese Juniper**
Similiar to "Hollywood" but is blue green
brilliant green, scale leaves in tufts
Upright, evergreen shrub or small tree
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**Juniperus chinensis 'Spartan' - Spartan Juniper**
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**Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa' - Hollywood Juniper**
Bright green color
Known as the "Hollywood Juniper", this is an upright plant with an artistic twisted and tufted appearance.
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**Juniperus conferta 'Blue Pacific' - Blue Pacific Shore Juniper**
Upright stems
Low trailing, evergreen shrub
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**Juniperus davurica 'Expansa'/'Parsonii' - Expansa Dahurian Juniper**
Ground cover
looks like a shrub when small
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**Juniperus horizontalis 'Plumosa Compacta' - Plumosa Compact Creeping Juniper**
V-shaped habbit
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**Juniperus horizontalis `Wiltonii' - Blue Rug Juniper**
Fine foliage that lays flat and tends to flow out of its container
100% scale leaves, intense silver-blue
leaves grow on only one side of stem
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**Juniperus procumbens 'Nana' - Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper**
Mounds in the center while stems lay flat
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**Juniperus x media `Pfitzeriana Compacta' - Compact Pfitzer Juniper**
Shrub type, sticks you when you touch it
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**Kalmia latifolia - Mountain Laurel**
Evergreen shrub with sympodial growth, elliptic leaves\*
Fruit, buds or inflorescence visible year-round\*\*
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**Kerria japonica - Japanese Kerria**
Deciduous shrub with cane-like growth
Leaves are plicate; stems are green,zig-zag,shiny\*\*\*
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Kniphofia x praecox - Red-Hot Poker
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**Lavandula angustifolia - Lavender**
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Kniphofia x praecox - Red-Hot Poker
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**lberis sempervirens - Candytuft**
Evergreen groundcover has small, flat, linear leaves\*\*
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**Liatris scariosa - Blazing Star**
Tall, unbranched grassy stems
Terminal spike of small heads
Flowers tubular, fringe-looking
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**Ligustrum japonicum - Japanese Privet**
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**Ligustrum sinense 'Variegatum' - Varigatum Chinese Privet**
opposit leaf arrangement
medium green with cream or white variegation
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Lilium sp. - Lily
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**Liriope muscari 'Variegata' - Variegated Lilyturf**
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**Liriope muscari - Lilyturf, Big Blue Lilyturf or Monkey Grass**
Plant is acaulescent\* and tends to form clumps
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**Liriope spicata - Creeping Lilyturf**
18 inch long, grass-like leaves, 1/4 inch wide, serrulate margin
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**llex cornuta `Burfordii' - Burford Holly**
Leaves bullate with terminal spine (usually no lateral spines)
Abundant bright red fruit
Stems yellow-green
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**Lonicera fragrantissima - Winter Honeysuckle**
Opposite ovate leaves
Creamy white, very fragrant lemon-scented flowers in pairs
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**Lonicera x heckrottii - Goldflame Honeysuckle**
Vine with fused leaf-like bracts subtending inflorescence\*\*
Flowers abundant, elongate tubular, narrow trumpet
Leaves opposite, oblong
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**Loropetalum chinense -Chinese Loropetalum or Fringe-flower**
4-petaled, wavy, strap-like white or pink flowers\*\*
Ovate leaf's undersides are sandpaper-y, rough\*\*
Evergreen shrub with leaves in a single plane\*
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**Mahonia bealei - Leatherleaf Mahonia**
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**Mentha sp. - Mint**
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**Michelia figo - Banana Shrub**
Brown pubescence under leaves and on buds\*\*
Cup-shaped, ivory flower smells like ripe banana\*\*
Evergreen shrub with magnolia-like leaves\*
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**Miscanthus sinensis sp. - Maiden Grass**
Erect clumping grass
Terminal inflorescence in finger-like racemes
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**Monarda didyma - Beebalm**
Erect herbs with square stems, opposite leaves
Leaves coarse, pubescent, minute axillary leafy shoots
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Muhlenbergia capillaris - Pink Muhly Grass
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**Muhlenbergia capillaris - Pink Muhly Grass**
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Muscari sp. - Grape Hyacinth
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**Myrica cerifera - Southern Wax Myrtle**
Yellowish resin glands on underside of leaf
Narrowly oblanceolate, attenuate leaves
Waxy fruits are highly aromatic
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**Nandina domestica 'Firepower' - Firepower Nandina**
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**Nandina domestica - Nandina (Heavenly Bamboo)**
Terminal clusters of bright red berries
Medium evergreen shrub with cane-like growth
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Nephrolepis exaltata 'Bostoniensis' - Boston Fern
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Narcissus sp. - Daffodil
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**Nerium oleander - Oleander**
Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4\*\*\*
Shiny, stout, green stems\*
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**Ocimum basilicum - Basil**
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Ophiopogon japonicus - Mondo Grass
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**Origanum vulgare - Oregano**
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**Osmanthus fragrans - Fragrant Tea Olive**
. They can be readily distinguished from hollies by their opposite leaves, hollies having alternate leaves..Foliage is dark, leathery, and usually toothed along the edges. Growth habit of most species is dense and upright-oval to rounded in form.
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**Osmanthus heterophyllus - False Holly**
Leaves are OPPOSITE, decussate, narrow elliptic, evergreen\*\*
Both entire leaves and leaves with 1-4 pr spiny teeth\*\*
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**Osmanthus x fortunei - Fortune's Osmanthus**
Large evergreen shrub or small tree
Opposite leaves, both toothed and entire
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**Pachysandra terminalis - Japanese Spurge**
Obovate\*\*leaves, alternate, 3-veined at base
Rhizomatous ground cover with decumbent stems\*
Leaves apical on upright stem tips, appear to be whorled
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Paeonia sp. - Peony
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**Parthenocissus tricuspidata - Japanese Creeper, Boston Ivy**
Vine with branched tendrils & holdfasts\*\*\*\*\*
Leaves broad ovate, cordate, 3-lobed, coarsely serrate
Juvenile leaves 3-foliate, resemble poison ivy
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Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln' - Fountain Grass
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**Perovskia atriplicifolia - Russian Sage**
Stems grayish, square, bearing opposite leaves
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**Petroselinum crispum - Parsley**
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Philodendron sp. - Philodendron
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**Phlox paniculata - Garden Phlox**
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**Phlox subulata - Moss Phlox (Thrift)**
Short, green, linear leaves\*\*
Flowers salverform, lobes are notched at apex\*\*
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**Picea glauca 'Conica' - Dwarf Alberta Spruce**
Small cone-shaped gymnosperm shrub
Lwaves short, sword-shaped, light green
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**Picea pungens - Colorado Blue Spruce**
Gymosperm with bluish saber-like leaves\*\*\*
Leaves stiff, ridid, spine-tipped\*\*
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**Pieris japonica - Japanese Pieris**
Reproductive structures visible year-round
White/pink urceolate flowers in pendulous chains\*\*
New growth bronze-purplish, stems yellow-green\*\*
Evergreen shrub with sympodial growth, rosette-like leaves\*
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**Pittosporum tobira - Japanese pittosporum, Tobira**
Evergreen, obovate leaves with entire margins
Dense, compact med. to lg. shrub,sympodial growth
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**Podocarpus macrophyllus var. maki - Maki, Shrubby or Chinese Podocarpus**
Densely compact shrub with alternate, spiral, linear leaves\*
Midrib of flattened leaves raised on both sides\*\*
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**Prunus laurocerasus 'Otto Luyken' - Otto Luyken Laurel**
No serrations unlike the Schip Laurel
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, entire, strong ascending
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**Prunus laurocerasus 'Schipkaensis' - Schip Laurel**
Has serrations in the leaves unlike the "Otto" which does not
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, serrate at apex
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**Pyracantha sp. - Firethorn**
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**Rhaphiolepis umbellata - Yeddo Rhaphiolepis, Indian Hawthorn**
Leaves large, coriaceous, broad, serrate, acuminate, reticulate below
Tree-likel evergreen shrub with sympodial growth\*
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**Rhododendron catawbiense - Catawba Rhododendron**
Long, leathery leaves, in tiers, congested at branch tips\*\*
Evergreen shrub, tiered, sympodial growth
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**Rhododendron obtusum - Hiryu or Kirishima Azalea**
Dwarf semigreen shrub with sympodial growth, crowded leaves
Twigs & leaves with reddish-brown hairs
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**Rhododendron Satsuki Group - Satsuki Azalea**
Dwarf spreading shrub, semievergreen, sympodial growth
Leaves crowded, lanceolate to suborbucular
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**Rosa banksiae - Lady Banks Rose**
Stems green, prickle-less ("thornless"0\*
Evergreen climbing shrub with pinnately compound leaves
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**Rosa sp. - Hybrid Rose**
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**Salvia officinals - Sage**
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Salvia superba - Perennial Salvia (Sage)
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Sansevieria trifasciata - Sansevieria (Snake Plant)
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Schefflera actinophylla - Schefflera
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Schefflera elegantissima - False Aralia
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**Sedum sp. - Stonecrop**
Succulent plants, erect to decumbent
Flowers small, clustered in compound cymes\*
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Spathiphyllum sp. - Spathiphyllum
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**Spiraea japonica 'Little Princess' - Little Princess Spirea**
Smaller leaf and more rounded than "Anthony Waterer"
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**Spiraea japonica `Anthony Waterer` - Anthony Waterer Japanese Spiraea**
Linear leaf and pointed
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**Spiraea nipponica `Snowmound` - Snowmound Nippon Spirea**
* alternate leaf arrangement
* very small serrated leaves
* vase-shaped
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**Spiraea x vanhouttei - Vanhoutte Spirea**
V shaped base
Deciduous fountain-like shrub with cane-like growth\*
Leaves are obovate, blue-green & unevenly toothed at apex half
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**Syringa vulgaris - Common Lilac**
Opposite leaves appear cordate, but base truncate\*\*
Upright leggy, top-heavy deciduous shrub
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**Taxus sp. - Yew**
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**Ternstroemia gymnanthera - Japanese Cleyera**
Branches are tiered, leaves appear whorled at tips\*\*
Evergreen blue-green leaves have purple petioles\*\*
Erect shrub with sympodial growth
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**Thymus vulgaris - Thyme**
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**Trachelospermum jasminoides - Confederate or Star Jasmine**
Evergreen vine with opposite, entire leaves
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Tulipa sp. - Tulip
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Vaccinium ashei - Rabbiteye Blueberry
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**Veronica spicata - Spike Speedwell**
Flowers blue, in dense terminal racemes
Leaves opposite, toothed in middle
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**Viburnum awabuki 'Chindo' - Chindo Viburnum**
Serrations on leaves
Evergreen shrub with large, waxy leaves
Leaves remotely toothed, leathery
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**Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet' - Spring Bouquet Laurustinus Viburnum**
No serrations and smaller leaves than the "Chindo"
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**Vinca minor - Common Periwinkle, Lesser Periwinkle**
Low-growing evergreen groundcover
Leaves opposite\*, elliptic and entire
Flowers rotate\*\*, lilac-blue or white
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**Weigela florida - Weigela**
Deciduous shrub with opposite,ovate,acuminate leaf
Stipular scars encircle stems
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**Wisteria sinensis - Chinese wisteria**
Twining, woody vine with pinnately compound leaves\*\*
