(Florida Anise, Florida Anisetree, Southern Star Anisetree)

Florida or purple anise is best known for its unusual summer flowers and fragrant, evergreen leaves. ‘Southern Star’ is a variegated selection grown for its mottled ivory and green leaves. This shrub or small tree is native to moist, wooded areas across the southeastern United States, from Florida to Louisiana. Mature specimens have upright branches and develop an open habit.

Its large, leathery leaves are elliptical to lance-shaped and have a delightful anise fragrance when crushed. The nodding...

(White Florida Anise, White Florida Anisetree)

Florida anise is best known for its unusual summer flowers and fragrant, evergreen leaves. The naturally occurring forma alba has creamy white flowers rather than red. This shrub or small tree is native to moist, wooded areas across the southeastern United States, from Florida to Louisiana. Mature specimens have upright branches and develop an open habit.

Its large, leathery leaves are elliptical to lance-shaped and have a delightful anise fragrance when crushed. The nodding flowers...

(Semmes White Anisetree, White Florida Anise, White Florida Anisetree)

Florida anise is best known for its unusual summer flowers and fragrant, evergreen leaves. The tall cultivar, 'Semmes', is a white-flowered selection with larger than average leaves. This shrub or small tree is native to moist, wooded areas across the southeastern United States, from Florida to Louisiana. Mature specimens have upright branches and develop an open habit.

Its large, leathery leaves are elliptical to lance-shaped and have a delightful anise fragrance when crushed. The nodding flowers...

(Japanese Blood Grass)

Native to Japan, cogon grass is an upright, clump-forming grass with light green new growth that darkens to mid-green and turns orangish-tan in dormancy. White seed heads are produced in the late summer. Cogon grass is listed on the United States Federal Noxious Weed List and can not be propagated, transported or sold in some states. It is also a weed in many parts of the world. For more information about cogon grass see http://www.invasive.org/eastern/biocontrol/28CogonGrass.html or http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/imcy1.htm...

(Japanese Blood Grass, Red Baron Japanese Blood Grass)

Japanese blood grass is an upright, clump-forming grass with green new growth that darkens to brilliant red from the leaf tip downward and turns straw-colored in dormancy. Though reported to rarely bloom, silver-white seed heads could be and sometimes are produced in the late summer. This plant's striking foliage makes it useful as an accent plant or as a backdrop for other plants, mixing well with blues and yellows. It is an easy-care plant, even tolerating heavy clay soils. Japanese blood grass...

(Chinese Indigo)

With its wisteria-like clusters of white flowers heavily infused with pink, Chinese indigo is eye-catching in the landscape. It has pinnately compound dark green leaves that resemble fern fronds. Suitable for rock gardens, this low suckering shrub can be pinched back while dormant to keep a compact appearance.

Very drought and heat tolerant, Chinese indigo is useful as a groundcover on sunny slopes or pillowing among large rocks.

(Chinese Indigo)

With its wisteria-like clusters of white flowers heavily infused with pink, Chinese indigo is eye-catching in the landscape. It has pinnately compound dark green leaves that resemble fern fronds. Suitable for rock gardens, this low suckering shrub can be pinched back while dormant to keep a compact appearance.

Very drought and heat tolerant, Chinese indigo is useful as a groundcover on sunny slopes or pillowing among large rocks.

(Himalayan Indigo)

Feathery bluish gray-green foliage and rosy pink flowers from midsummer to late fall are highlights of the Himalayan indigo. A rounded shrub in habit, it looks rather loose and airy but still structured. It's native to forested slopes across Afghanistan to southwestern China and in pockets across India, Sri Lanka and eastern Africa. Himalayan indigo acts like an herbaceous perennial in areas with cold winters, taking a long time to rejuvenate new growth in late spring. The leaves are finely textured...

(Hairy Indigo, Roughhairy Indigo)

Popular as a forage and green manure crop, this large bushy annual or short-lived perennial from Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia is grown or naturalized throughout much of the tropics and subtropics.

The branching, erect or spreading stems of this vigorous plant bear pinnately compound leaves with 5 to 11 hairy, elliptical leaflets. Older stems are stout and woody. Long crowded spike-like racemes of rose-red to orange-red flowers arise from the stem tips and leaf axils from...

(Horsfall's Morning Glory, Prince Kuhio Vine, Prince's Vine)

Lustrous dark green foliage makes the prince's vine attractive year round, but wintertime finds it covered in violet-magenta flowers that are breathtaking. A very fast-growing tropical vine native to Jamaica in the western Caribbean, it is root hardy in regions with light frosts, but since it blooms in winter it is problematic in such climates.

The dark green leaves are glossy and hand-like (palmate) with three to five lobes that are deeply cut. Sometimes the leaf edges are undulating or have...