Plant ID Week 5

Acer palmatum

• COMMON NAME: Japanese Maple

• SIZE: Medium tree, height and width 15’-20’

• Deciduous, fall color red-orange

• FRUIT: 1” samara• FORM: Multi-trunked• FOLIAGE: Simple leaves,

Opposite, Color varies with cultivar, palmately lobed with doubly serrated margins

Cornus florida

• COMMON NAME: Flowering Dogwood

• Decidious tree, height 20’-30’, width 20’-25’

• FOLIAGE: simple, ovate shape with entire, wavy margins, opposite arrangement, fall color red

• FLOWERS: Four showy white or pink bracts, early spring

• FRUIT: ½” red drupes

Lagerstroemia indica

• COMMON NAME: Crape Myrtle

• Deciduous small tree, height 10’-20’ tall, multi-trunk

• FOLIAGE: simple, oval shape with entire margins, opposite arrangement

• FLOWERS: Pink, white, purple clusters in summer

• BARK: Smooth exfoliating bark

Nandina domestica

• COMMON NAME: Heavenly Bamboo

• Evergreen shrub, 5’-6’ high, 3’-’4 wide

• FOLIAGE: Alternate, compound leaf, ovate leaflets with entire margins

• FLOWERS: White clusters

• FRUIT: Bright red berries in winter

Rhododendron catawbiense

• COMMON NAME: Catawba Hybrid Rhododendron

• Evergreen shrub, 8 to 10 feet tall, 6’-8’ wide

• Simple, Elliptical leaves with entire margins , dark green

• Funnel-shaped flowers in clusters

• Grows in the **NC Mountains**