Plant ID #5 Horticulture 2

Fittonia verschaffeltii Nerve Plant –Foliage: Burgundy Veined; Perennial; simple, oval shape with entire margins, alternate arrangement –Height: 6 inches –Spread: 6 to 9 inches –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Landscape Use: container –Exposure: Partial sun –Unique Characteristic: indoor plant, odd colored veins

Forsythia x intermedia –Border Forsythia –Foliage: simple, ovate shape with serrate margins; serrations starting 1/4 of the way up the leaf. Up to 3" long. Light green in color; deciduous shrub –Flowers: Yellow, 4 petaled flowers in early March for about 3 weeks before the leaves –Height: 4 to 10 feet –Spread: 4 to 6 feet –Form: round –Landscape Use: Accent, border, hedge, specimen –Exposure: Sun –Leaf Arrangement: opposite –Unique Characteristic: Young twigs are square. All twigs have grey lenticels. Flowers before leaves come out.

Fuchsia x hybrida Fuchsia –Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with entire wvay margins; burgundy petiole. Pointy leaf. Slightly serrated; –Flowers: Purple-pink or white-red bell shaped flower –Height: 1.5 to 6 feet –Spread: 1 to 3 feet –Form: shrub/ weeping –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Exposure: Bright but not direct sun –Landscape Use: container, hanging baskets –Unique Characteristic: Often used in containers or hanging baskets; prefers cool temperatures

Gardenia jasminoides Cape Jasmine/ Gardenia –Foliage: Simple, elliptic shape with entire margin –Flowers: blooms in May and June; white –Height: 5-6 feet –Spread: 5-6 feet –Leaf Arrangement: opposite –Exposure: Sun or shade –Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge –Unique Characteristic: orange berry fruit, very fragrant

Gerbera jamesonii Gerber Daisy –Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with lobed, serrated margins –Flowers: daisy like, white, yellow, pink –Height: 12 inches plus –Spread: 6 inches plus –Form: bushes at bottom; flower shoots straight up on stalk –Leaf Arrangement: alternate arrangement –Landscape Use: bedding plant, border, cut flower –Exposure: Partial Sun –Unique Characteristic: no serious insect or disease problems; can self seed in some areas

Gibasis pellucida Tahitian Bridal Veil –Foliage: simple, lanceolate shape with entire, wavy margins; purplish tint –Flowers: ¼ inch wide. Tiny white flowers with 3 to 4 petals –Height: 6 inches –Spread: 2 to 3 feet –Form: creeping –Leaf Arrangement: alternating –Exposure: Partial Sun –Landscape Use: container, hanging baskets –Unique Characteristic: very delicate plant, when in bloom; flowers are very noticeable

Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo –Foliage: Simple, medium green and unusually obovate (fan-shaped), up to 3" long, with a petiole that is also up to 3" long; Y veins –Flowers: incomplete flowers –Height: feet –Spread: feet –Form: upright columnar, sparsely branched, and open growth habit in youth, usually becoming an upright oval to upright spreading growth habit with maturity –Leaf Arrangement: alternating –Exposure: Sun –Landscape Use: shade tree –Unique Characteristic: use only male plants in landscape b/c females put off a foul smell when in bloom

Gladiolus x hortlanus Gladiolus –Foliage: Simple, lanceolate shape with entire margins; long tall spikes shooting up from the ground –Flowers: line flowers; trumpet shaped florets; beginning at the base of the spike and continue upward; yellow, pink, orange –Height: 1 to 6 feet –Spread: 6 inches –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: whorled at base –Exposure: Sun –Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging –Unique Characteristic: used in flower arrangements

Gleditsia triacanthos var inermis Thornless Honeylocust –Foliage: deciduous tree; bright green glossy leaves; pinnately or bipinnately compound leaves –Stems: black bark and zigzag tigs with thorns –Flowers: small, greenish-yellow flowers –Height: feet –Spread: feet –Form: upright-spreading to arching –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Landscape Use: border, screen –Exposure: sun –Unique Characteristic: looks attractive near water

Gynura aurantiaca Velvet Plant –Foliage: Simple, coarsely-toothed, ovate to elliptic, green leaves (to 8” long) are covered with reddish- purple hairs –Flowers: yellowish, orange spiky flower –Height: 6 inches + –Spread: 6 inches + –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Unique Characteristic: covered with shiny purple hairs –Landscape Use: container, hanging basket –Exposure: Sun

Hedera helix English Ivy –Foliage: simple, oval shape with lobed, wavy margins; evergreen; palmately veined; 3-5-lobed; green, yellow or variegated –Flowers: Adult form produces blue-black berries –Height: 50 feet –Spread: 50 feet –Form: Climbing, aerial roots –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Exposure: Part Sun –Landscape Use: Container, hanging basket, interiorscape –Unique Characteristic: house plant

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