Also known as summer cypress, this this half-hardy annual often grown as a shrub is native to central and southern Europe and Asia and was introduced into the US in…
This deciduous suckering, spreading shrub is native to the Northern Great Plains from Manitoba to Wyoming and Colorado, east to Minnesota and Kansas where it grows on sandy hills, rocky…
This suckering deciduus shrub is in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, that also includes , Abelia, and pincushion flower. It is the result of a cross between S. microphyllus and S.…
Native to the grasslands, shrubland, deserts, and forests of Western US from Washington to California, east to the Dakotas and Texas, this suckering deciduous shrub is known by many names…
This vine-like sprawling evergreen shrub, also known as thorny olive, spiny oleaster, and silverthorn is native to China and Japan. It is a member of the oleaster family, Eleagnaceae, that…
This thicket-forming evergreen shrub or small tree is native to sandy woods, dunes, open fields, forest edges, and wet swamps especially in the coastal plain and maritime forests from Virginia…
Foliage can add both texture and color to the landscape to create a mood and enrich the visual quality of the garden. Leaves may be glossy, matte, large, small, leathery,…
Also called shadscale, this evergreen shrub is native to western and midwestern US, from the Dakotas south to Texas and west to the coast. It is a member of the…
This evergreen shrub or small tree is native to dry mountain slopes of western US from Washington to California, east to Idaho, Montana, Whyoming, Colorado, Utah and northern Arizona. It…
Also known as alder-leaf mountain-mahogany, alder-leaf cercocarpus, and true mountain-mahogany, this mostly deciduous long lived shrub or small tree grows in chaparral scrub, and on mesas and the lower foothills…
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