1. Plant ID Group #9
Horticulture 2

2. Picea abies Norway Spruce
Foliage: evergreen shrub with simple, needle-like shape, slightly curved; needles that persist for 3 to 4 years; needles are stiff and pointed, 0.5" to 1" long; needles tend to point downwards and towards the stem tip; medium green in color
Height: feet
Width: feet
Form: conical
Leaf Arrangement: whorled
Landscape Use: border, foundation, specimen
Exposure: sun

6. Pieris japonica Japanese Andromeda
Foliage: evergreen shrub with simple, linear shape leaves with serrulate margins
Flowers: white in pendulous panicles in spring; graceful
Height: 5-6 feet
Form: 4-6 feet
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge
Exposure: part shade to shade

10. Pinus mugo var mugo Mugo Pine
Foliage: dark green, /2 inches long, stiff needles of this two-needle Pine are held on the tree for more than four years making this one of the more dense Pines suitable for a screen planting
Flowers: 1-2 inch pine cone
Height: 4 to 10 feet
Form: shrub or small, round or broad pyramidal plant
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Landscape Use: border, foundation, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristics: expensive, slow growing and virtually maintenance free; good for rock gardens

13. Pinus strobus Eastern White Pine
Foliage: soft, flexible, blue-green; 2"-4" long, 3-sided, in bundles of five. Evergreen
Flowers: Cones slender and thornless, 3"-10" long and tapering; each scale usually bears two winged seeds as do all native pines
Height: 80'-110'
Spread: 20'-40'
Form: pyramidal tree
Landscape Use: border, screen, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristic: Not native to Eastern NC

16. Platanus x acerifolia London Plane Tree
Foliage: simple, lobed, star shaped; deciduous;
Flowers: red and inconspicuous and not showy; spring flowering
Height: 85 feet
Width: 70 feet
Form: symmetrical canopy with a regular outline, and individuals have more or less identical crown forms
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: shade, parking lot beds
Exposure: sun

21. Plectranthus australis
Swedish Ivy
Foliage: rounded, glossy, dark green 1-1½" long, scalloped margins
Flowers: whorled, tubular, pale mauve to white flowers in terminal racemes
Height: stems trailing to 3'
Form: weeping and creeping
Exposure: partial shade
Landscape Use: container, hanging baskets
Unique Characteristic: orange dye in stems

25. Prunus laurocerasus 'Zabeliana'
Zabel Cherry Laurel
Foliage: evergreen shrub with simple, elliptic leaves with entire margins
Flowers: white, fragrant, bloom in May
Height: 3-4 feet
Width: 8-10 feet
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: border, foundation
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristics: purplish drupe for fruit

29. Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’
Japanese Flowering Cherry
Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, elliptic shape with serrated margins
Flowers: deep pink, double in spring
Height: feet
Spread: feet
Form: branches grow upward
Leaf Arrangement: alternating
Landscape Use: border, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristic: used for blooms and fall color

33. Pyracantha coccinea Scarlet Firethorn
Foliage: Evergreen broadleaf; foliage is glossy, dark green; glossy green leaves are slender, growing from just ½- to 1-inch wide and 1 to 4 inches long
Flowers: Showy, small white flowers bloom in spring followed by bright orange berries in the fall
Height: 2-10 feet
Width: feet
Form: shrub that spreads
Landscape Use: border, hedge, foundation, specimen plant, and barrier
Exposure: part shade to full sun
Unique Characteristics: fierce thorns

36. Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’
Bradford Pear
Foliage: deciduous tree with simple ovate leaves and serrated margins
Flowers: white, five petals on flowers in spring before leaves appear; green/brown pomes appear after flowers
Height: feet
Spread:15-20 feet
Form: oval; formal symmetrical habit
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: border, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristic: stink, break easily in storms, bad leaf litter

41. Quercus falcata Southern Red Oak
Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, obovate outline with 3-7 bristle tipped lobes
Flowers: catkins, acorns
Height: feet
Width: feet
Form: tall tree
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: border, shade tree, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristics: holds dead leaves for a while during the winter.

44. Quercus nigra Water Oak
Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, obovate shape with 2 lobed entire margins
Flowers: catkins, acorns
Height: feet
Width: feet
Form: tall tree
Leaf Arrangement: alternate
Landscape Use: border, shade tree, specimen
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristics: most commonly used oak for street plantings and shade

47. Quercus palustris Pin Oak
Foliage: simple, 5-7 narrow lobes with bristle tips; deciduous; 3-6 inches long
Flowers: tiny yellow catkins
Height: feet
Spread: feet
Form: pyramidal shape when young; oval to gumdrop-shape when older
Leaf Arrangement: alternating
Exposure: sun
Landscape Use: border, shape, specimen
Unique Characteristic: ½” light brown acorn

48. Catkin
NOT FROM PIN OAK

53. Quercus phellos Willow Oak
Foliage: deciduous; 2 to 5.5" alternate, narrow, simple lanceolate shaped leaves; slightly wavy; yellow to yellow brown fall color
Flowers: .5" acorn
Height: 60 to 80'
Spread: 35 to 50’
Form: Conical in youth; rounded crown; dense
Leaf Arrangement: alternating
Exposure: sun
Landscape Use: border, shade, specimen

58. Raphiolepis indica Indian Hawthorn
Foliage: low-growing evergreen flowering shrubs; leathery, dark evergreen leaves are rounded, about 2 to 3 inches long, turning purplish in winter
Flowers: fragrant, pink or white crabapple-like flowers open in clusters above the foliage in mid-April to May
Height: 3 to 6 feet
Width: 3 to 6 feet
Form: dense mounded growth habit
Leaf Arrangement:
Landscape Use: small gardens and foundation plantings
Exposure: sun
Unique Characteristics: rarely need pruning

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