Carolina Yellow Jasmine

jasmine

vine

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

Carolina Yellow Jasmine is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. Other winter zone scales for planting this jasmine are ANBG: 1, 2, 3, 4; RHS: H6, H5, H4, H3, H2; PHZ: 8a, 8b, 9a.

Jasmine details

Plant type

vine, toxic, flowering, fragrant, containers

Life cycle

perennial, evergreen

Sun needs

part shade, full sun, part sun

Growth habit

upright, climbing, trailing, twining, spreading

Flowering period

early spring, late winter

Height at maturity

4 m

Spread

60 sm - 90 sm

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

Gardens types

container

Winter hardiness zones:

USDA:	7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b 10a 10b
ANBG:	1 2 3 4
RHS:	H6 H5 H4 H3 H2
PHZ:	8a 8b 9a

Carolina Yellow Jasmine Yellow Carolina jasmine (botanical name Gelsemium sempervirens) is an evergreen twining vine, native to subtropical and tropical America: Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and southeastern and south-central United States (from Texas to Virginia). Yellow jessamine is the state flower of South Carolina.

It has a number of common names including yellow jessamine or jasmine, Carolina jasmine or jessamine, evening trumpetflower, gelsemium and woodbine, but despite its common name, the species is in the family Gelsemiaceae so it's not a "true jasmine" and not of the genus Jasminum.

Carolina Jasmine (Yellow jessamine) is a ideal for use to climb along the top of fences, on a trellis, on a mailbox, over an arbor or any other structure that might benefit from or support the vine. It can also be useful as a ground cover for slopes or banks where it will sprawl and naturalize or to climb into smaller trees where early flowering is especially noticeable.

Also this vine is flexible as it can twine around structures or grow as a dense groundcover. As an evergreen plant, its leaves are always showing, which makes it a good cover or screen.

In fact, it's is so easygoing you can even grow it in a container as long as you provide support with a trellis or lattice on a wall behind it.

Since Yellow Carolina jasmine is not "true jasmine", but of the genius Gelsemium sempervirens - it is a poisonous plant. All parts of this plant contain the toxic strychnine-related alkaloids gelsemine and gelseminine and should not be consumed.

Carolina Yellow Jasmine @ wikipedia.