Plant: Sunny-Side-Up - Azalea
Azalea - NATIVE · Rhododendron austrinum
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
An erect native deciduous azalea of the lower southeastern states, 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, whose fragrant funnel shaped flowers open in spring before the leaves emerge. Pale yellow buds open to lemon yellow flowers with a darker blotch, within a species range that runs from clear yellow and cream through gold orange to almost red, and the dark green foliage turns yellow to bronze orange in autumn. It is heat tolerant and low maintenance, wanting partial shade and an acid to neutral, organic, well drained but moist soil, and works as a specimen in a naturalized area or at a woodland edge.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-9b
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
An erect native deciduous azalea of the lower southeastern states, 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, whose fragrant funnel shaped flowers open in spring before the leaves emerge. Pale yellow buds open to lemon yellow flowers with a darker blotch, within a species range that runs from clear yellow and cream through gold orange to almost red, and the dark green foliage turns yellow to bronze orange in autumn. It is heat tolerant and low maintenance, wanting partial shade and an acid to neutral, organic, well drained but moist soil, and works as a specimen in a naturalized area or at a woodland edge.
- Flowers
- Pale yellow buds open to lemon yellow flowers with a darker blotch; the species carries clear yellow, cream, gold orange to almost red funnel shaped flowers in spring before the leaves emerge.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple dark green leaves with yellow to bronze orange fall colour.
- Fruit
- Elongated capsule.
- Native range
- Lower southeastern United States
