Yellow Carolina Jasmine
Gelsemium sempervirens
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Vine
Height or Length at Maturity: 12’+
Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Spacing: 3-4′ apart to cover fences
Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Dense, Spreading/Trailing, Twining, Twisted Branching, Upright
Growth Rate: Fast to Very Fast
Flower Color: Bright Yellow
Flower Type: Single
Flower Size: 1 to 1.5″
Flowering Period: Late Winter, Early Spring
Fragrant Flowers: Yes!
Foliage Color: Deep Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Well Drained
Soil pH: 5.5 – 8.0
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
A vigorous evergreen flowering vine that will grow or climb 10 feet or more in a relatively short period of time to cover fences, arbors, arches, mailboxes, posts, trellises and many other structures, Carolina Jasmine Vine, also called Carolina Jessamine, produces an abundance of very fragrant, trumpet-shaped, bright-yellow flowers in late winter to early spring. The lustrous dark green foliage develops a purple cast in winter.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 12 feet or more in length, and 2 to 4 feet wide, Carolina Jasmine 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. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, yellow theme gardens and cottage gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 3 to 6 feet apart on fences
Growing Preferences
Carolina Jasmine is very easy to grow. It tolerates a wide range of soils, however is also exceptionally drought tolerant. It prefers a moist, well-drained soil of average fertility. We have it growing in sunny and partially shaded sites and it does equally as well in both exposures.
Helpful Articles
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