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Gelsemium sempervirens

Also Known As

Carolina Jasmine
Carolina Jessamine
Yellow Jessamine

Plant type

groundcover, vine

size

H: 10'-20'
W: 20'

planting zones

7b-11

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Gelsemium sempervirens plant details

Gelsemium sempervirens is a fast-growing broadleaf evergreen groundcover vine with green foliage. In spring yellow flowers emerge. Features glossy texture. Grows well with sun - mostly shade and even moisture water. Does well in rich and well-drained soil.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Gelsemium sempervirens

Plant type: groundcover vine
Plant family: gelsemiaceae
Foliage: evergreen green
Mature size: 20 FT wide, 10 FT - 20 FT - tall
Flowers: yellow blooms in spring
Uses: fragrant

GROWING CONDITIONS for Gelsemium sempervirens

USDA Zones: 7b - 11
Sun exposure: sun - mostly shade
Watering frequency: even moisture

Soil needs: rich and well-drained

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Closely related in fragrance to the white jasmines, this vigorous vine has yellow, tubular, 1 _" flowers that bloom from early winter through spring. Give cool nighttime temperatures for optimum spring flowering. Carolina Jasmine is a great choice for a fragrant hanging basket or a container with a trellis or stake for the vine to climb on.

By: Logee's Plants for Home & Garden

Robust evergreen vine with fragrant yellow flowers in the spring. Grows 10-12' in ten years. One of the best traditional southern vines. Awards: Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Recommended by: the United States National Arboretum.

By: Fantastic Plants

Beautiful bright yellow trumpets herald the coming of spring! This is an easily grown and vigorous, yet dainty evergreen vine native to the SE U.S. The fragrance can stop you in your tracks on a night time garden stroll!

By: Almost Eden

Vigorous semi-evergreen to evergreen in the south, climbing vine with thin, wiry stems. Fragrant yellow flowers in large clusters in spring. Useful for covering fences, mailboxes or trellises. Wonderful spring color. Will flower in some shade. May not be evergreen in cold winter. Blooms on old wood.

By: Lazy S'S Farm Nursery

The Jessamine of the Southeast with evergreen, narrow, somewhat triangular, shiny green leaves and late spring flowers of pleasing creamy yellow. A good small-scale vine -- to 10-20' -- in sun or dappled shade where temperatures seldom fall below 0 ºF. These plants are taken from an old specimen at the former digs of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery in Medford, Oregon and have survived -6 ºF in 1990. Frost hardy in USDA zone 8 with possible dips into 7 and, yes, even upper zone 6.