Plant: Sweet Azalea
Azalea - NATIVE · Rhododendron arborescens
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A fast growing native deciduous azalea of eastern North America with an erect, open frame reaching 8 to 20 feet tall and wide. Strongly fragrant white to light pink hairy flowers with red stamens open late, from May to July, and the lustrous dark green foliage turns bright orange or crimson purple in fall. It grows in full sun to partial shade in an acid, well drained but moist soil that may be occasionally wet, tolerating wet sites and rabbits, and is best used as a specimen or border shrub in a naturalized area or at a woodland edge.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4a-7b
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A fast growing native deciduous azalea of eastern North America with an erect, open frame reaching 8 to 20 feet tall and wide. Strongly fragrant white to light pink hairy flowers with red stamens open late, from May to July, and the lustrous dark green foliage turns bright orange or crimson purple in fall. It grows in full sun to partial shade in an acid, well drained but moist soil that may be occasionally wet, tolerating wet sites and rabbits, and is best used as a specimen or border shrub in a naturalized area or at a woodland edge.
- Flowers
- White to light pink fragrant hairy flowers with red stamens, opening from May to July.
- Foliage
- Lustrous dark green simple leaves turning bright orange or crimson purple in fall.
- Fruit
- Egg shaped capsule about three quarters of an inch long.
- Native range
- Eastern North America
