Caryopteris

Caryopteris {{{latin_name}}}	bluebeard
	Habit: herbaceous/small shrub Height: ⇕  ? Width: ⇔ Lifespan: ⌛ Origin: ✈  ? Poisonous: ☠	Exposure: ☼  ? Water: ◍  ? Features: ✓ Hardiness: ☃ Bloom: ❀ USDA Zones:  ? Sunset Zones:
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Caryopteris (Greek for nut and wing). Verbenaceae. Ornamental woody plants grown for their lavender-blue flowers profusely produced in autumn.CH Deciduous small shrubs: lvs. opposite, short-petioled, serrate: fls. in axillary cymes; calyx campanulate, deeply 5-lobed with lanceolate teeth, spreading and somewhat enlarged in fr.; corolla 5-lobed, with short cylindric tube and spreading limb, 1 segm. larger and fringed; stamens 4, exserted, 2 of them longer; style slender, 2-parted at the apex: fr. separating into 4 somewhat winged nutlets.—About 16 species in E. Asia.CH These are glabrous, pubescent or tomentose shrubs with small blue or violet late flowers. Free-flowering and very valuable for their late blooming season; not hardy North; even if well protected they will be killed almost to the ground, but the young shoots, springing up freely, will flower profusely the same season. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

They require well-drained and sandy soil and sunny position; if grown in pots, a sandy compost of peat and leaf soil or loam will suit them, and they will flower in the greenhouse until midwinter.^CH

Propagation

Propagated readily by cuttings of half-ripened wood in summer or fall under glass, and by seeds sown in spring.^CH

Pests and diseases

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Species

Genus of 16 species^wp:

• Caryopteris aureoglandulosa (Vaniot) C.Y.Wu
• Caryopteris bicolor (Roxb. ex Hardw.) Mabb.
• Caryopteris divaricata Maxim.
• Caryopteris forrestii Diels
• Caryopteris glutinosa Rehd.
• Caryopteris grata Benth.
• Caryopteris incana (Thunb. ex Houtt.) Miq.
• Caryopteris jinshajiangensis Y.K.Yang & X.D.Cong
• Caryopteris mongholica Bunge - Lvs. lanceolate, almost entire: cymes with fewer but larger fls.^CH
• Caryopteris nepetifolia (Benth.) Maxim.
• Caryopteris odorata (Ham. ex Roxb.) Rob.
• Caryopteris paniculata C.B.Clarke
• Caryopteris siccanea W.W.Smith
• Caryopteris tangutica Maxim.
• Caryopteris terniflora Maxim.
• Caryopteris trichosphaera W.W.Smith

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The hybrid Caryopteris × clandonensis (C. incana × C. mongholica) is commonly grown; there are several cultivars, including 'Blue Mist', 'Heavenly Blue', 'Longwood Blue', and 'Dark Knight'.^wp

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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