Spring 2017 Instructors: Sandy Wilson Bart Schutzman Teaching Assistant: Ray Odeh Cleome hassleriana (Cleomaceae) Spider Flower, Cleome Señorita Blanca® Spider Flower Cleome hassleriana klee‐OH‐me • Type: annual • Native to Argentina, Paraguay, • Hardy to 32F Uruguay, SE Brazil • Full sun • Cleome=Derivation uncertain, possibly kleos=glory • Heat and drought tolerant • Hassleriana=Emile Hassler • Use: containers, landscape beds • Leaves: alternate, palmately compound with 5‐7 leaflets • PW Series: Señorita Blanca® , • Flowers: terminal racemes; white, 4 Señorita Mi Amor® (pink) , petals and 6 long stamens Señorita Rosalita® (lavender • Form: upright, to 3‐4 ‘ high • Sterile, thornless, non‐sticky, odorless pink), Pequeña Rosalita® foliage (compact) • Plant breeders hybridized Cleome hassleriana with other Cleome species • stem borer‐ cabbage budworm‐ • PW: ‘INCLESBIMP’‐naturally occurring control with DiPel plant mutation in Germany 2013 Impatiens walleriana (Balsaminaceae) Impatiens, Touch‐me‐not Rockapulco® Coral Reef Double Impatiens Impatiens walleriana im‐PAY‐shuns wall‐er‐ee‐AY‐nuh • Native to East Africa • Type: annual • Impatient=explosive release of the seed • Winter hardy to 35◦F • Walleriana= Rev. Horace Waller, missionary in Central Africa • part shade to shade • Leaves: ovate to elliptic, glabrous • Use: landscapes and containers • Flowers: slender spurred, 5 • PW Rockapulco series ®(Double petaled or doubled, flattened appearance flowers): Wisteria, Coral Reef, • Form: compact, mounded 10‐20” White, Purple, Appleblossom, tall Orchid, Dark Orange, Red, Rose • PW: ‘Balcoree’ (Coral Reef Impatiens) • Impatiens hawkeri‐ New Guinea • PW: ‘Balfiesaled’ (Red Double Impatiens) Impatiens • Downy mildew Rockapulco® Orchid Double Impatiens Rockapulco® Coral Reef Double Impatiens Pelargonium ×hortorum (Geraniaceae) Geranium Timeless™ Fire Geranium Pelargonium ×hortorum • Type: annual Pell‐ar‐GO‐nee‐um • Hardy to 38 ◦F • Full sun to part shade • Native to S. Africa • Pelargos=a stork, referring to • Heat and drought tolerant storksbill‐like fruit • Use: baskets, mass plantings • Leaves: alternate, simple, orbicular, green or patterned, • Zonal pelargonium with P. lobed zonale and P. inquinans as • Flowers: 5 symmetrical petals parents appearing in umbels • Form: mounded, 1‐2’ width and • Linnaeus originally included all height the species in one genus, • Seed or cutting propagated Geranium; later separated in • Dead head to encourage flowering • Continuous rebloomer 1789 • PW ‘Cante Fir09’ product of a planned breeding program of • PW Timeless™ series: Fire, Goldsmith Seeds lavender, rose, pink, orange Pelargonium × ‘Mrs Pollock’ Ruellia simplex (Acanthaceae) Mexican Petunia Ruellia simplex • Type: Perennial • Winter hardy to Zone 7‐8 roo‐EL‐ee‐uh • • Native to Mexico, Antilles, S. America Full sun to part shade • After Jean Ruel (1474‐1537) French • Heat and drought tolerant, wet herbalist who served King of France tolerant • Simplex=simple leaves • Use: perennial borders • Formerly R. brittoniana, R. tweediana • Invasive status: FLEPPC • Leaves: opposite, narrowly elliptic, irregularly toothed, pubescent Category I • Stems‐swollen at nodes • Mayan cultivars are sterile • Flowers: tubular, trumpet‐shaped, 5 (Freyre, Moseley, Knox and petals, lasting a single day Wilson, 2012, HortScience) • Form: upright to 3’ tall, rhizomatous • R. caroliniensis‐ Native • UF ‘RT‐102’, ‘RT‐108’ • R. elegans‐ red Lake Jesup Conservation area, Sanford, FL Paynes Prairie, Alachua County, FL UF Mayan Series Mayan Purple Purple Showers wild R. simplex http://assessment.ifas.ufl.edu persistent pedicels in fertile Ruellia In sterile Ruelliacultivars, the pedicels shrivel and fall some days after the flower drops Salvia leucantha (Lamiaceae) Mexican Sage Salvia leucantha SAL‐vee‐uh lew‐KAN‐thuh • Native to Central America, Mexico • Type: perennial, subshrub • Salvus=safe (referring to medicinal properties) • Evergreen to 25◦F, root hardy to • Leuc‐anthus=white flowered 18◦F • Leaves: lanceolate, crenate, • Full sun tomentose underneath, grey green, reticulate with impressed • Heat and drought tolerant veins • Use: borders, landscapes, • Stems: pubescent, square butterfly gardens, cut flowers • Flowers: bilabiate, long terminal spikes, showy, bi‐color with white • Late summer bloomer corollas and purple calyces • Form: loose spreading mound to • ‘Midnight’‐ purple flowers and 3‐4’ tall calyces Salvia splendens (Lamiaceae) Scarlet Sage Salvia splendens SAL‐vee‐uh SPLEN‐denz • Native to Brazil • Type: Annual • Salvus=safe (referring to • Winter hardy to zone 9 medicinal properties) • Full sun to part shade • Splendens=splendid, brilliant, • Use: formal beds, mass shining plantings, edging, containers • Leaves: ovate, serrate‐crenate • First introduced to horticulture • Stems: square in 1822 as Lee’s Scarlet Sage • Flowers: purple, cream, pink or red, bilabiate, terminal racemes • Form: clumping to 1‐2’ tall Scaevola aemula (Goodeniaceae) Fan Flower, Scaevola Scaevola aemula skee‐VO‐luh EM‐yoo‐luh • Native to southern Australia • Type: perennial (coastal dunes) • winter hardy to 30‐32◦F • Scaevola=left handed (referring to petals on one side) • Full sun • Leaves: irregularly serrate • Heat and drought tolerant • Flowers: fan‐shaped, 5 violet • Use: containers and landscapes, blue petals and yellow throats, loose groundcover zygomorphic • Form: trailing to 2’ wide • PW ‘Scablhatis’‐ Whirlwind® Blue originated from cross made in 1999 of two selections Stachytarpheta mutabilis (Verbenaceae) Pink Porterweed, Pink Snakeweed Stachytarpheta mutabilis stay‐kee‐tar‐FEH‐tuh mew‐TAB‐ill‐iss • Native to Mexico, Caribbean, • Type: perennial South America • Cold hardiness ‐ Zone 8 • Stachys= spike, tarphys=thick • Full sun to part shade • Mutabilis=changeable • Heat and drought tolerant • Leaves: conspicuously toothed, • Use: butterfly gardens, ovate perennial landscapes • Flowers: pink to red • Wilson et al., 2009. HortScience inflorescence with only a short section of the spike producing • Native: S. jamaicencis flowers at one time • FLEPPC Invasive: S. urticifolia • Form: upright, irregular to 4‐6’ Thunbergia grandiflora Blue Sky Vine Thunbergia grandiflora thun‐BER‐jee‐uh gran‐dih‐FLOR‐uh • Native to India, China, Thailand, • Type: Perennial Vietnam • Cold hardy to 25°F, root hardy • Honors Carl Peter Thunberg (1743‐ 1828), a student of Linnaeus to 18°F • Grandis=great, flora=flower • Full sun to part shade • Leaves: cordate, margins • Use: trellis, arbors, fences, irregularly, coarsely serrate baskets • Flowers: Blue, trumpet shaped, • Extensive tuberous root system tubular (3”), yellow corolla tube; appearing singly or in racemes on • T. battiscombi‐ Blue Clock Vine drooping branches; fruit‐capsule (smaller and less rampant) • Form: climbing, flowering vine to 15‐30’ tall Verbena × (Verbenaceae) Verbena Superbena® Large Lilac Blue Verbena × • Type: tender perennial Ver‐BEE‐nah • Cold hardiness to Zone 8 • Parents V. peruvuiana, V. phlogiflora, • Full sun Heat, drought, V. incisa, and V. teucroides are native to South America • Use: hanging baskets, window • Latin name for the foliage of boxes, bedding plant, rock ceremonial or medicinal plants gardens • Leaves: opposite, simple, crenate‐ irregular, deltoid • Superbenas‐ powdery mildew • Flowers: salverform flowers arranged resistant, available in Blue‐ on corymbs, 5‐petaled Purple, Burgundy, Coral‐Red, • Form: low trailing to 6‐9” tall, 1‐2’ wide Dark Blue, Large Lilac Blue, Pink • PW ‘USBENAL11’ Shades, and Purple (sterile • Continuous Bloomer cultivars) • Product of planned breeding program in Japan for disease resistance and high temperature tolerance, released • Glandularia canadensis, G. in 2003 tampensis and G. maritima‐ FL natives Superbena® Large Lilac Blue Spring 2017 Instructors: Sandy Wilson Bart Schutzman Teaching Assistant: Ray Odeh.