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Plant: Carolina Silverbell Tree
Halesia carolina
-25%$112.50
Was $150.00
Size: 15 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Spring
More about this plant
A native small tree or large shrub covered in drooping white bell-shaped flowers in spring, followed by winged fruit that lasts into winter. Leaves turn gold in fall. It prefers moist, acidic, humus-rich soil in sun or dappled shade, needs water in drought, and suits woodland edges, lawns and patios as a specimen.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A native small tree or large shrub covered in drooping white bell-shaped flowers in spring, followed by winged fruit that lasts into winter. Leaves turn gold in fall. It prefers moist, acidic, humus-rich soil in sun or dappled shade, needs water in drought, and suits woodland edges, lawns and patios as a specimen.
- Flowers
- Drooping clusters of 2 to 5 white, bell-shaped flowers, sometimes tinged pink, in spring.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, finely toothed oblong to ovate leaves, 3 to 6 inches long, dark green and turning gold in fall.
- Fruit
- Dry, four-winged drupe, green maturing to brown, 1 to 3 inches long, lasting into winter.
- Bark & stems
- Young bark is gray with dark fissures; mature bark is scaly, ridged and furrowed over reddish-brown.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Eastern and southeastern United States, from West Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois south to Florida.
