Plant ID Week 3

Norfolk Island Pine

• Indoor plant• Looks like a little pine or cedar tree• About 4 feet tall

Geranium

• Common for Mother’s Day• Flowering plant with red, white,

pink flowers• Long petioles (leaf stems)

Glossy abelia

• Medium evergreen shrub• White bugle-shaped flowers about 1 inch long

Japanese barberry

• Medium deciduous shrub• Small spines at the leaf nodes and

red berries

Common boxwood• Evergreen shrub• Opposite, simple

leaves• Smooth margins

Dwarf yaupon• Dwarf evergreen shrub• 2 ft tall X 2 ft wide• Leaves ½ -1 inch long• New growth is light green and

stems are grey• Margins have ridges

Winged euonymus

• Medium deciduous shrub• Turns bright red in the fall• “burning bush”

Evergreen euonymus

• Evergreen shrub• Leaves can be green with gold or

white margins (leaf edges)

Japanese Privet

• Large evergreen shrub• Dark green leaves• Tiny purplish berries

Pansy

• Bedding plant flower• Biennial• Usually planted in the fall• Grow well through NC winter

Now lets quiz your knowledge!!!

Common boxwood

Dwarf yaupon

Winged euonymus

Evergreen euonymus

Norfolk island pine

Pansy

Japanese privet

Geranium

Japanese barberry

Glossy abelia