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Lagerstroemia indica 'Arapaho'
Common Name: Crape Myrtle, Arapaho

Arapaho Crape Myrtle is one of the National Arboretum releases. It grows 15 to 20 feet tall with tight branching and lustrous, dark green leaves. The tree produces dark red flowers with purple overtones which persist throughout the summer. Arapaho...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Carolina Beauty'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Carolina Beauty

Carolina Beauty Crepe Myrtle is a small growing tree with dark red panicle flowers from July to September and the foliage turns orange in the fall. Carolina Beauty Crepe Myrtle has an attractive gray - brown bark as it matures. Carolina Beauty Crepe ...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Catawba'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Catawba

Catawba Crepe Myrtle is a large deciduous shrub with dark purple flowers that provide a good backdrop for the yellow stamens. Catawba Crepe Myrtle has a rounded habit but can be limbed up to create the look of a small tree. Catawba Crepe Myrtle is a ...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Muskogee'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Muskogee

Muskogee Crepe Myrtle is one of the larger growing crepe myrtles. Muskogee is normally a multi stemmed tree with lavender pink flowers in the summer and foliage that turns red in autumn. The bark is gray to tan and adds to the winter interest of the ...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Natchez'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Natchez

Natchez Crepe Myrtle is a small growing, deciduous, multi-stemmed tree with a multitude of white flowers in the summer that are so numerous that they cause the branches of the tree to gracefully weep over. The foliage of the tree turns orangish red i...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Sarah's Favorite'
Common Name: Sarah's Favorite Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia indica 'Sioux'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Sioux

Sioux Crepe Myrtle is an upright, multistemmed, large shrub or small tree with deep pink flowers through out the summer and foliage that turns red in fall. The bark on the trunk and older branches exfoliates to reveal a light grayish brown color. Sou...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Tonto'
Common Name: Crape Myrtle, Tonto

Lagerstroemia indica 'Tuscarora'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Tuscarora

Tuscarora Crepe Myrtle is a medium size grower that has 5 to 12 inch long and 4 to 8 inch wide, deep coral pink, panicle flowers and foliage that turns orangish red in autumn. Tuscarora Crepe Myrtle has attractive, mottled, light brown bark. Tuscaror...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Victor'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Victor

Victor Crepe Myrtle is a dwarf crepe myrtle that is a compact grower with dark red flowers in July and August and foliage that turns reddish yellow in autumn. Victor Crepe Myrtle is a good selection for foundation plantings, in a mixed border, or as ...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit III'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Pink Velour

Pink Velour® Crepe Myrtle is a medium size grower with deep pink flowers through the summer and new growth that is a deep red wine color that is most apparent in the spring. Pink Velour® Crepe Myrtle is a good selection for the mixed border, corners ...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit IV'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Red Rocket

Red Rocket® Crepe Myrtle is a small growing deciduous tree that gets large, cherry red, panicle flowers in the summer and the new growth is a deep crimson red. The red flowers may fleck white on cooler, cloudy days.
Red Rocket® Crepe Myrtle is a goo...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit VII'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Siren Red

Siren Red® Crepe Myrtle is a smaller growing crepe myrtle with deep red flowers in summer and wine colored new growth in the spring. Siren Red® Crepe Myrtle is an excellent choice for the mixed shrub border and could also be used as a deciduous hedge...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit I' 'Raspberry Sundae'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Raspberry Sundae

Rasberry Sundae® Crepe Myrtle is a medium size, upright to columnar grower with rasberry red flowers with white margins and bronze new growth. Rasberry Sundae® Crepe Myrtle is a good selection for tighter spots, as a specimen in the landscape, on bui...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit VI' PP14438 P2 'Burgundy Cotton'
Common Name: Crape Myrtle, Burgundy Cotton

Burgundy Cotton Crepe Myrtle is a very interesting cultivar due to the many color variations throughout the year. Burgundy Cotton Crepe Myrtle is a broad, upright grower with white flowers that have yellow stamens but, under cool conditions, the flow...


Lantana x hybrida 'New Gold'
Common Name: Lantana, New Gold

New Gold Lantana is drought tolerant, heat loving, and low maintenance. Blooms spring to frost. Great ground cover for full sun....


Leucanthemum 'Crazy Daisy'
Common Name:

Crazy Daisy has large fluffy,double-white flowers....


Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Ligustrum, Waxleaf

Waxleaf Ligustrum is a dense evergreen shrub with an upright habit and lustrous, dark green leaves. It is widely used in the south for multiple purposes, such as screening, pruned into a small tree and used as a specimen, foundation plantings, and to...


Ligustrum japonicum 'Jack Frost'
Common Name: Ligustrum, Jack Frost

Jack Frost Ligustrum is an evergreen shrub with a dense, upright habit and variegated leaves that are a lighter shade of green with a creamy white leaf margin. Jack Frost Ligustrum has many uses, including screening, use as a hedge, specimen, and top...


Ligustrum japonicum 'Recurvifolia'
Common Name: Ligustrum, Curly Leaf

Curly Leaf Ligustrum is an evergreen shrub with lustrous, dark green leaves that have a wavy leaf margin and are twisted at the ends. Curly leaf ligustrum has a dense upright habit and is a good choice as a hedge, screen, limbed up for use as a speci...


Ligustrum japonicum 'Rotundifolium'
Common Name: Ligustrum, Dwarf Curlyleaf

Dwarf Curly Leaf Ligustrum is a fairly narrow, upright growing evergreen shrub with contorted looking, dark green leaves and two to three inch long, white, panicle flowers in the spring. I have seen dwarf curly leaf ligustrum used as a hedge or a scr...


Ligustrum sinense 'Swift Creek'
Common Name: Privet, Swift Creek

Swift Creek Privet is a semi-evergreen shrub with variegated yellow and green leaves that grows in an upright to rounded habit. It is a good choice for screens, hedges, or for use in a mixed border....


Liquidambar styraciflua
Common Name: American Sweetgum

American Seetgum is a native, large growing, deciduous tree with an oblong to rounded crown at maturity. American Sweetgum has 5 to 7 lobed, star shaped leaves that are lustrous green above and pale green underneath turning to a deep red to maroon in...


Liquidambar styraciflua 'Burgandy Flush'
Common Name: Sweetgum

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundaloba'
Common Name: Fruitless Sweetgum

Fruitless Sweetgum is a fruitless version of our native sweetgum. Fruitless Sweetgum seems to grow more narrow than the species but as tall. The leaves are lobed like the species but the lobes are rounded as opposed to pointed. As the name suggests, ...


Liriodendron tulipifera
Common Name: Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar is one of the taller growing native tree in our forests and woods. It is a very straight growing tree with a columanar habit. Tulip Poplar has flowers in the spring that are tulip shaped followed by large, emerald green leaves that are s...


Liriodendron tulipifera 'Fastigiatum'
Common Name: Upright Tulip Poplar

Upright Tulip Poplar is a narrow, upright form of our native Tulip Poplar. Upright Tulip Poplar is a good choice for use as a specimen in the home lawn or a park setting....


Lirope muscari 'Big Blue'
Common Name: Liriope, Big Blue

Big Blue Liriope is a perennial with long, grass-like, deep green foliage and lavender flowers born on stalks that rise above the foliage. The flowers eventually produce a green berry that turns black as it ripens. Big Blue Liriope is a great plant t...


Lirope muscari 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Liriope

Variegated Liriope is a perennial with long grass like foliage that is variegated with green and creamy-yellow. Variegated Liriope is a great plant to use in borders, as edging, and to fill large areas in the landscape....


Loropetalum chinense 'Blush'
Common Name: Loropetalum, Blush

Blush Loropetalum is an evergreen shrub with bronze red new growth maturing to olive green and producing bright pink, star shaped flowers in April and an occasional flower throughout the summer. Blush Loropetalum is a good choice for use as a foun...


Loropetalum chinense 'Daruma'
Common Name: Daruma Loropetalum

Loropetalum chinensis 'Chang's Ruby'
Common Name: Chang's Ruby Loropetalum

Loropetalum chinensis 'Plum Delight'
Common Name: Loropetalum, Plum Delight

Plum Delight Loropetalum is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that has deep purple foliage and hot pink tassle like flowers in April. Plum Delight Loropetalum is a good choice to use as a foundation plant, as a screen or hedge, in mixed shrub borders, or i...


Loropetalum chinensis 'Ruby'
Common Name: Loropetalum, Ruby

Ruby Loropaetalum is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with deep burgundy foliage and hot pink, tassle like flowers in early spring that cover the entire plant. Ruby Loropetalum is an excellent choice for a screen or hedge, a foundation plant for homes or ...


Loropetalum chinensis 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'
Common Name: Loropetalum, Zhuzhou

Zhuzhou Fuchsia Loropetalum is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with deep burgundy foliage and bright hot pink flowers in the spring. Zhuzhou Fuchsia Loropetalum has the deepest colored foliage of the burgundy colored Loropetalumsand is more upright than ...