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Plant ID #3 Horticulture 2 Chamaecyparis pisifera • Gold Mop – Foliage: medium- to large-sized evergreen shrub; scale-like or awl-like leaves press close to the thready stems – Height: 3'-20' tall x similar widths, depending upon cultivar – Form: round – Exposure: full sun – Landscape Use: accent plant, borders, foundations Chameadorea elegans • Parlor Palm – Foliage: Fan like leaf; compound; linear leaflets with entire margins – Flowers: rare – Height: May grow up to 15 feet outside, rarely over 5 feet when grown as an indoor plant – Spread: Can be up to 2 feet at the base when cultivated outside – Form: weeping – Leaf Arrangement: alternative – Landscape Use: container; interiorscape – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: indoor plant; good for air pollution removal Chlorophytum comosum • Spider Plant – Foliage: grass-like, evergreen perennial in the lily family; linear, 8-16 in long; simple, linear shape with entire margins – Flowers: Small white flowers are borne along outward arching wiry stalks – Height: 1-2’ – Spread: 1-3’ – Form: weeping – Leaf Arrangement: whorled – Exposure: sun – Landscape Use: Container, Hanging basket, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: After blooming and fruiting, little tufts of leaves - baby spider plants - develop on the stalks. Chrysanthemum morifolium • Florist Chrysanthemum – Foliage: simple; oval shape with deeply lobed margins – Flowers: large flower head; red, orange, yellow, white, lavender – Height: 1 to 5 feet – Spread: up to 4 feet – Form: Short lived bushy perennial – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: sun or part sun – Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: Commonly used in flower arrangements; popular potted flowering plant. MUM FEST Chrysanthemum x superbum • Shasta Daisy – Foliage: simple, linear shape, entire at base with serrated tip margins – Flowers: white with yellow centers; single and double flowered – Height: 3 to 4 feet – Spread: 2 to 3 feet – Form: upright – Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun – Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging – Leaf Arrangement: whorled – Unique Characteristic: need some support to keep them from falling over; deciduous Clematis x jackmanii • Clematis Hybrids – Foliage: compound, 3 ovate leaflets with entire margins – Flowers: produce flowers on the current season's growth; abundant and large, to 7 in across, with 4-6 petal-like sepals; single or double – Height: 10 feet in one season – Spread: vine; twining growth – Form: vine; climbing with trendels – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: Border, container, edging – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Unique Characteristic: 400 named cultivars of hybrid clematis Codiaeum variegatum • Croton – Foliage: evergreen; diversity of leaf shapes and colors; all variegated in colors; simple; entire margins – Flowers: tiny inconspicuous star-shaped yellow flowers – Height: 10 feet – Spread: varies greatly – Form: upright; shrub – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: house plants stay small; milky sap Coleus x hybridus • Coleus – Foliage: late spring to fall; simple, ovate shape with crenate margins – Flowers: spike, whitish-purple in summer – Height: 8 to 30 inches depending on variety – Spread: 6 to 24 inches depending on variety – Form: upright, inverted pyramid – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Landscape Use: Border, container, edging – Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun – Unique Characteristic: grown for foliage Cornus florida • Flowering Dogwood – Foliage: deciduous; mid-green leaves; 3-6 in long, turn red and purple in autumn; ovate shape with entire, wavy margins – Flowers: Blooms before leaves come out; white or pink; single, white in early spring; indented at tip – Height: 30 feet – Spread: 35 feet – Form: short trunk with full rounded crown with horizontal branches often in layered tiers – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Landscape Use: Border – Exposure: Light shade – Unique Characteristic: Flowering Dogwoods are one of our most common under story trees. State Flower Cornus kousa – Chinese Dogwood – Foliage: 2 to 4", simple, ovate shape with entire margins; reddish purple to scarlet fall color; deciduous; hairy underneath; no veins after midpoint – Flowers: Pointy petals; blooms about 2 to 3 weeks after C. florida; pinkish red to red fruit in late summer – Height: 20 to 30 feet – Spread: 15 to 20 feet – Form: Vase shape in youth; rounded with horizontal branching with age – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Landscape Use: border – Exposure: light shade – Unique Characteristic: AKA Kousa Dogwood Cupressocyparis x leylandii • Leyland Cypress – Foliage: evergreen; scale-like leaves with entire margins – Flowers: not showy; brown cones – Height: 50-60 feet – Spread: 12 to 15 feet – Form: Upright; pyramidal – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: border, screen – Exposure: sun – Unique Characteristic: Short-term screen plant; disease and insect prone; easy to transplant; salt tolerant Crassula ovata • Jade Plant – Foliage: Succulent, fleshy leaves are round or oval, dark green, blue-gray or edged in red depending on species and cultivar; waxy outer layer; – Flowers: Clusters of star-shaped white or pink flowers will appear on mature plants in the winter – Height: 5 feet indoors (extremely slow growth) – Spread: same as height – Form: upright (shaped like little tree) – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Exposure: full sun or bright filtered light – Landscape Use: container or interiorscaping – Unique Characteristic: don’t over water! 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