Butterscotch Yellow Jasmine

jasmine

vine

It is a evergreen, perennial, fragrant, flowering vine, see how the Butterscotch yellow jasmine looks like in the garden and landscape.

Butterscotch Yellow Jasmine is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. Other winter zone scales for planting this jasmine are ANBG: 1, 2, 3; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3; PHZ: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.

Jasmine details

Plant type

vine, toxic, flowering, fragrant

Life cycle

perennial, evergreen

Sun needs

part shade, full sun, part sun

Growth habit

upright, climbing, trailing, twining, spreading

Flowering period

early spring, fall, late winter

Height at maturity

4 m

Spread

60 sm - 1 m

Spacing

90 sm - 2 m apart to cover fences

Soil type

loamy, sandy, clay, silty

Soil moist/drainage

well drained

Soil PH

5.5 - 8.0 (moderately acidic - moderately alkaline)

Water needs

average, low when established

Maintenance / care

low

Resistance to

deer, disease, drought, heat, insect, humidity

Winter hardiness zones:

USDA:	6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
ANBG:	1 2 3
RHS:	H7 H6 H5 H4 H3
PHZ:	7a 7b 8a 8b 9a

Butterscotch Yellow Jasmine (botanical name Gelsemium rankinii), the Rankin's trumpetflower or swamp jessamine, is a twining vine in the family Gelsemiaceae, native to the southeastern United States from Louisiana to the Carolinas.

Gelsemium rankinii is a vine that will climb over other vegetation to a height of 6 meters (20 feet) or more. It has glossy green leaves and groups of showy yellow flowers. Looks very similar to Carolina Yellow Jasmine.

Unique in that Butterscotch yellow jessamine, also called Jasmine, produces loads of fragrant, bright golden-yellow funnel shaped flowers in late winter to early spring and then again in fall. This cultivar flowers about 3 weeks later than Carolina Jasmine. The flowers contrast nicely with the shiny, dark green evergreen leaves that cover its dense, twining stems.

Butterscotch Jessamine can also be useful as a ground cover for slopes where it can sprawl and naturalize or to climb into smaller trees where early flowering is especially noticeable. This jasamine is ideal for use to climb along the top of fences, on a trellis, over a pergola or arbor or any other structure that might benefit from or support the vine.

Since Butterscotch Yellow jasmine is not "true jasmine", but of the genius Gelsemium rankinii - the vine icontains toxines. All parts of this plant contain the toxic strychnine-related alkaloids gelsemine and gelseminine and should not be consumed.

Butterscotch Yellow Jasmine @ wikipedia.