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Plant ID Group #9

Plant ID Group #9. Horticulture 2. Picea abies. Norway Spruce

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Plant ID Group #9

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  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: 40-60 feet • Width: 30-35 feet • Form: conical • Leaf Arrangement: whorled • Landscape Use: border, foundation, specimen • Exposure: sun

  3. 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

  4. Pinus mugo var mugo • Mugo Pine • Foliage: dark green, 1 - 1 1/2 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’ • Japanese Flowering Cherry • Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, elliptic shape with serrated margins • Flowers: deep pink, double in spring • Height: 20-25 feet • Spread: 15-20 feet • Form: branches grow upward • Leaf Arrangement: alternating • Landscape Use: border, specimen • Exposure: sun • Unique Characteristic: used for blooms and fall color

  10. 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: 12-14 feet • Form: shrub that spreads • Landscape Use: border, hedge, foundation, specimen plant, and barrier • Exposure: part shade to full sun • Unique Characteristics: fierce thorns

  11. 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: 20-35 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

  12. Quercus falcata • Southern Red Oak • Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, obovate outline with 3-7 bristle tipped lobes • Flowers: catkins, acorns • Height: 50-60 feet • Width: 50-60 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.

  13. Quercus nigra • Water Oak • Foliage: deciduous tree with simple, obovate shape with 2 lobed entire margins • Flowers: catkins, acorns • Height: 40-70 feet • Width: 45-60 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

  14. Quercus palustris • Pin Oak • Foliage: simple, 5-7 narrow lobes with bristle tips; deciduous; 3-6 inches long • Flowers: tiny yellow catkins • Height: 40- 75 feet • Spread: 25- 40 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

  15. Catkin • NOT FROM PIN OAK

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