UACES Facebook Landscape Shrubs D - K by Scientific Name
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Landscape Shrubs D-K by Scientific Name

Scientific Name Common Name Comments 
Deutzia gracilis
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Slender Deutzia
  
  • Size: small (3' tall by 4' wide) deciduous shrub; mounded habit
  • Fruit: noted for early spring, white flowers, not fragrant
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: full sun; adaptable to soils
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: massed, middle of mixed shrub bed
Edgeworthia chrysantha
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Paperbush
  
  • Size: medium shrub; 6’ tall x 6’ wide
  • Culture: partial shade to shade
  • Use: component of woodland garden, mixed shrub border
Elaeagnus pungens (E.x ebbingei)
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Thorny Elaeagnus
  
  • Size: fast growing, large 12' tall by 12' wide) broadleaf evergreen; very wild habit unless pruned
  • Flowers: extremely fragrant flowers in the fall, but not showy
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun; very adaptable to soil type
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: must be sheared; good for screen/hedge
  • Similar to E. x ebbingei
Euonymus alatus
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Winged Euonymus (Burningbush)
  
  • Size: medium (7' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: yellow/green, not showy
  • Fruit: brilliant orange, can be significant after foliage drops and if in sufficient numbers
  • Fall color: exceptional, pink
  • Twigs: distinctive 'wings'
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil; best in partial sun to shade. Very shade tolerant
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: individual plant, naturalizing, deciduous hedge
  • Cultivars: 'Compactus' (red fall color; similar size) more common in trade
Euonymus japonicus 'Aureus'
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Variegated Euonymus
  
  • Size: this cultivar is low (2’ tall x 4’). Broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun; adaptable to soil type
  • Disease/insect: Euonymus scale a problem
  • Use: low, evergreen groundcover
  • Cultivars: many cultivars and forms available besides this one
Euonymus kiautschovicus 'Manhattan'
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Manhattan Euonymus
  
  • Size: large (10' tall by 10' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun; adaptable to many soils
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: evergreen screen or wide hedge
Forsythia x intermedia
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Border Forsythia
  
  • Size: medium/large (7' tall by 9' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: known for exceptional, yellow flowers, early spring
  • Fruit: not significant (woody capsule)
  • Fall color: depends on weather, can be deep maroon purple
  • Culture: full sun; tolerant of most soils
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: massed; mixed shrub bed
Fothergilla gardenii
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Dwarf Fothergilla
  
  • Size: small (4' tall by 4' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: showy, early spring, white, 'thimble-like' flowers; often re-blooms in fall
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: nice flame fall color
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil; best in partial sun. Provide adequate moisture if located in full sun
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: massed, mixed shrub border
Gardenia jasmonoides
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Gardenia
  
  • Size: medium (5' tall by 5' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Flowers: fragrant flowers; pure white flowers in summer, fade yellow
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil, acid soil; partial sun or shade; Best in zones 7 and 8
  • Disease/insect: scale, whitefly
  • Use: specimen near entry-ways
  • Cultivars: few for increased cold hardiness (‘Kleim’s Hardy’)
Hamamelis virginiana
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Witchhazel
  
  • Size: large (10' tall by 10' wide) deciduous shrub; very irregular habit, open
  • Flowers: noted for yellow, strap-like flowers in late fall/early winter
  • Fruit: not significant (woody capsule)
  • Fall color: yellowish or golden yellow
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil, sun or shade. Flowers well in shade
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: naturalizing
  • Cultivars: hybrid selections such as ‘Arnold’s Promise’, ‘Jelena’, ‘Sunburst’ even more dramatic flowering in early spring; native H. vernalis flowers mid-winter/early spring
Hibiscus syriacus
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Althea; Rose-of-Sharon
  
  • Size: large (9' tall by 9' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: known for significant summer flowers (white, pink, purple)
  • Fruit: not significant, woody capsule
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: full sun; tolerates most soils. Drought tolerant once established
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: specimen, back of mixed shrub border
  • Cultivars: many. Mostly for flower color or type (single/double)
Hydrangea macrophylla
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Bigleaf Hydrangea
  
  • Size: medium (4.5' tall by 5' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: known for spectacular flowers in early/mid summer (pink or blue; mopheads or lacecaps); most flower on old wood so don’t prune severely in early spring
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil; partial sun or shade
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: specimen, foundation, mixed shrub beds
  • Cultivars: hundreds for flower type and flower color
  • See Hydrangea database for more information
Hydrangea paniculata
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Panicle Hydrangea
  
  • Size: large (9' tall by 9' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: known for dramatic, white, terminal panicles in summer, fade to pink
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: moist soil; tolerates full sun
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: specimen, back of mixed shrub bed. Has lost favor with introduction of white crapemyrtles
  • Cultivars like 'Grandiflora', 'Floribunda', 'Unique', and 'Tardiva' have showier flowers with more sterile flowers
  • See Hydrangea database for more information
Hydrangea quercifolia
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Oakleaf Hydrangea
  
  • Size: medium (5' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: known for significant white panicles in early summer
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: dramatic, maroon; 'oak-like' leaves
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil; shade or sun
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: foundation, specimen
  • Cultivars: ‘Alice’, ‘Sikes Dwarf’, ‘Harmony’, ‘Snow Queen’ and more
  • See Hydrangea database for more information
Ilex cornuta 'Burfordii'
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Burford Holly
  
  • Size: large (18' tall by 8' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Flowers: not significant
  • Fruit: showy, red berry; Unique in that fruit-set does not require pollination (parthenocarpic)
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun or shade; moist soil best. Avoid poorly drained soils
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: hedge or screen
Ilex cornuta 'Carissa'
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Carissa Holly
  
  • Size: small (3' tall by 3' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Fruit: female clone so no red fruits
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil. Avoid poorly drained soils.; sun or shade
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: excellent for foundation plantings or massed
Ilex crenata 'Compacta'
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Dwarf Japanese Holly
  
  • Size: small (2' tall by 4' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Fruit: black, not showy
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil. Avoid poorly drained soil; sun or shade
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: commonly used in foundation plantings
  • Other similar cultivars: ‘Helleri’, ‘Hetzii’, ‘Repandens’
Ilex crenata 'Convexa'
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Convexa Japanese Holly
  
  • Size: small (2' tall by 4' wide) broadleaf evergreen, leaf cupped down (convex)
  • Culture: best in rich, moist soil, sun or shade
  • Use: commonly used in foundation plantings
  • Very similar to Dwarf Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata 'Compacta')
Ilex decidua
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Possumhaw
  
  • Size: large (15' tall by 15' wide) deciduous shrub; open habit
  • Flowers: small, white, not showy
  • Fruit: exceptional red/orange fruits in winter
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: sun or shade; adaptable to soils
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: woodlands, back of mixed shrub bed
  • Native to Arkansas
Ilex glabra
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Inkberry Holly
  
  • Size: medium (5' tall by 4' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Flowers: not significant
  • Fruit: black berry (drupe) on female plants; not showy
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun or partial shade; rich, moist soil best
  • Use: Masses or foundation plantings
  • Cultivars: several. Most for tighter habit and glossy dark green leaves
Ilex vomitoria 'Nana'
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Dwarf Yaupon Holly
  
  • Size: small (3' tall by 5' wide) broadleaf evergreen
  • Flowers: insignificant
  • Fruit: not overwhelming on this form, red
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun or shade; rich, moist soil best
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: common in foundation plantings
  • Many similar cultivars ('Schillings'/'Stokes Dwarf'; Bordeaux™; 'Straughan's Dwarf')
Ilex vomitoria 'Pendula'
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Weeping Yaupon Holly
  
  • Size: medium (15' tall by 5' wide) weeping broadleaf evergreen
  • Fruit: heavy red fruit display
  • Use: specimen plant
Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri'
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Foster Holly
  
  • Size: large (20' tall by 7' wide) pyramidal broadleaf evergreen
  • Flowers: not significant
  • Fruit: showy, red berry
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
  • Culture: sun to partial shade; moist soil best. Avoid poorly drained soils
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: commonly used at the corner of a house/building
Ilex x meserveae
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Blue Holly
  
  • Size: medium (7' tall by 8' wide) broadleaf evergreen; open habit
  • Flowers: not significant
  • Fruit: beautiful red berry (drupe) on female plants
  • Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen; Recognized by dark blue-green leaves
  • Culture: best in partial shade; moist soil
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: massed, mixed shrub bed
  • Cultivars: Usually sold in pairs: male ('Blue Boy'; Blue Prince') and female ('Blue Girl'; 'Blue Princess')
  • Bred by Mrs. Meserve in the early 1950's for cold hardiness of evergreen hollies
Ilex x 'Nellie R. Stevens'
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Nellie R. Stevens Holly
  
  • Size: very large (18' tall by 15' wide) pyramidal broadleaf evergreen
  • Common hedge/screen plant in South
  • Heavy fruit producer (female plant)
Itea virginica
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Sweetspire; Virginia Sweetspire
  
  • Size: medium (4' tall by 9' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: significant, white, terminal racemes, May/June
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: reliable, spectacular maroon fall color
  • Culture: sun to partial sun; moist soil
  • Disease/insect: none significant
  • Use: mass, spreads by rhizomes
  • Cultivars; 'Henry's Garnet'; 'Saturnalia'; 'Merlot'
Jasminum nudiflorum
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Winter Jasmine
  
  • Size: medium (4' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: late winter (February/March) for weeks; golden yellow on green stems
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: full sun; adaptable to most soils
  • Misc: pinnately compound leaf, 3 leaflets
Juniperus conferta
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Shore Juniper
  
  • Size: low (18" tall by 6' wide) needle evergreen
  • Needles: Soft blue-green color
  • Culture: full sun; drought tolerant once established
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: groundcover. Probably best groundcover juniper for Arkansas
  • Cultivars: 'Blue Mist'; 'Blue Pacific'
Juniperus horizontalis 'Bar Harbor'
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Bar Harbor Juniper
  
  • Size: low (8" tall by 8' wide) needle evergreen
  • Needles: green summer color; steel blue winter color
  • Culture: full sun; drought tolerant once established; avoid overhead watering
  • Disease/insect: twig blights common due to high humidity and overhead watering
  • Use: very low groundcover; slopes
  • These cultivars are mostly selected from sand dunes along the Eastern seaboard
Juniperus horizontalis 'Plumosa'
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Andorra Juniper
  
  • Size: low 12" tall by 8' wide), radially symmetric, needle evergreen
  • Needles: Green summer color; purple winter color
  • Culture: full sun
  • Selected by Andorra Nursery in 1907
  • Differs from Bar Harbor Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis 'Bar Harbor')  in that growth is symmetrical and it is slightly taller
Juniperus procumbens
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Japgarden Juniper
  
  • Size: low (1' tall by 7' wide) needle evergreen
  • Needles: all juvenile (awl-shaped)
  • Culture: full sun
  • Use: Ideal for cascading over walls; Japanese gardens. Another good choice for Arkansas
Juniperus x media 'Pfizteriana'
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Pfitzer Juniper
  
  • Size: large (7' tall by 12' wide) needle evergreen
  • Culture: full sun; drought tolerant once established
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: Industry standard for medium/large juniper
Kerria japonica
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Japanese Kerria
  
  • Size: medium (4' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub
  • Flowers: beautiful deep yellow flowers mid-spring and then sporadically throughout the year
  • Fruit: not significant
  • Fall color: none
  • Culture: partial sun to shade ('forsythia for the shade'); drought tolerant once established
  • Disease/insect: none serious
  • Use: flowering shrub for shade, masses
  • Stems green & zig-zag
  • Cultivar: 'Pleni flora' (double), 'Picta' (leaves edged white)
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