1. Evergreens Quiz

2. Height: 1-2’
Spread: 4-8’
Scale-like; bluish-green in the summer & plum in winter
Forms a thick mat
Berry in fall
Sun-part shade
Withstands severe exposure and grows in any soil
Problems-blight & mites 15

3. 2
Height: 60-80’
Spread: 30-50’
Alternate, Elliptical, Entire & Pinnate Leaves
Glossy top and brown underneath
Creamy white 10” wide flower
Sun-Part Shade

4. 9
Height: 5-10’
Width: 5-8’
Waxy, solid green and golden edged leaves (variegated will revert to solid-must prune off)
Opposite, simple, obovate & serrated
Stem-squarish
Shade-Sun
Problems: Leaf spot, euonymous scale, & aphids

5. 17 Height: 10-12’ Spread:8-10’ Lanceolate leathery leaves (aromatic)
Serrate at apex and olive colored
Bluish-gray berry (females only)
Sun-shade

6. 1 Height: 100’ Spread: Narrow pyramid Scale leaves that are flattened
Full Sun
Used as a
Problems: Bag worms & shallow roots

7. 6 Height: 4-6’ Spread: 3-5’ 1-1.5” long glossy green leaves
Pinkish-white tube shaped flowers (summer)
Semi-shade

8. 10
Height: 5-6’
Width: 4-6’
Oblong leaves with 1-3 spines at top and slight recurve
Sun-shade

9. 7 Height: 4-5’ Spread: 3-4’ 4-8” deep green or spotted leaves
Good in shady places
Semi-shade
Dioecious

10. 19 Height: 6-10’ Spread: 5-8’ 3-6” long/1-2” wide bluish green leaves
Alternate, Elliptical, Entire
Flowers Lilac-Purple in April-May & 5-6” wide (umbel shaped)
Likes cooler climates (becomes leggy in unfavorable conditions
Part shade
Leaves and flowers are bigger than azalea
Troubled by many pests

11. 8 Height: 3-8’ Spread: 3-4’ Simple with white midrib on underside
Part shade
Used as a hedge along a building

12. 3 Height: up to 10’ Spread: up to 15’ 1-3” long needles, 2/fasicle
Sun-Part Shade
Problems: Scale

13. 11 Height: 20-30’ Width: 7-10’ 1-4 spines down the upper half of leaf
Alternate, simple, elliptic-ovate, & glossy
Cluster of berries in fall/winter
Typical Pyramid shape
Sun-part shade

14. 5
Height: 50-80’
Spread: 30-35’
Needle like leaves 12-18” (3 per fascile)
Full Sun
Acidic Soil
One Central Leader

15. 12
Height: 4’
Width: 5’
Wedge-based leaves with crenate margins, flat & ½” long
Mounding habit
Sun-shade
Good substitute for boxwood
Spider Mites

16. 4
Height: 50-80’
Spread: 20-40’
5 needles/fasicle that have a thin white line on the middle
Leaves appear to have a bluish-green hint
Sun

17. 13 Height: 3-5’ Width: 4-6’ Green-reddish brown leaves
Alternate, simple, ovate, & crenate
Gray stems
Sun-shade
Drought tolerant

18. 18
Height: 6-8’
Spread: 2-3’
Pinnately-Compound leaves, Lanceolate, Entire
1-1.5” long leaflets
Pink/White Panicle Flower (May-June)
Green-spring
Greenish-maroon/red in winter
Problem Free Plant

19. 14 Height: 1-2’ Spread: 6-9’ Awl shaped (1/2” long) and usually in 3’s
Stomata band with bluish-green underside
Blue berry
Sun-part shade
Will grow on beach dunes or in clay and withstands severe exposure

20. 16 Height: 6-12’ Spread: 6-8’ Opposite, Simple, Ovate, Entire
4” long leathery with raised veins on underside (curl at apex)
White panicle in May (fragrant)
Sun-shade
Stems-large grey lenticels
Sometimes grown as a small tree 16

21. 20 Height: 3’ Spread: 3’ .5-1” long dull/dark green leaves Ovate
Mid-April flowers (3-5/cluster)
Part shade
Hairy stem & leaves