Lab Walk 4: Broadleaved Evergreens

Myrica pennsylvanica     Note semi-evergreen leaves, wax-covered berries Leaves and berries fragrant when crushed

Buxus x 'Green Velvet' Note: leaves are opposite, strong fragrance

Helleborus sp. Note palmately componund foliage, thick and evergreen with serrated edges Flowers early in spring: flowers white, pink, rose, purple, yellow

Ilex verticillata    Pretty boring right now.  Hope you saw the berries before the birds got there.  

Ilex opaca     Note tree-form habit, "medium green" leaves

Euonymus fortunei   Note: two cultivars of wintercreeper, clearly loved by deer

Mahonia aquifolium   Note: Pinnately compound leaves, sharp spikes, large flower clusters at teminals of some branches Purple winter color

Ilex glabra      Note leaves wider at tip than base, three small notches at end of leaf thin texture, lacking large terminal buds

Pieris japonica       Note terminal flower clusters

Rhododendron catawbiense Note thick, large leathery leaves, coarse habit and very large terminal flower buds

Ilex x meserveae       Note leaves are simple, NOT compund, lacking large flower clusters; leves rich dark bluish green shrub form

Buxus sempervirens   Note foliage opposite, strong odor

Euonymus fortunei ‘Coloratus’  Note ground cover habit, purple winter color, serrated leaf margins and white leaf veins

Rhododendron sp Note large terminal flower buds

Rhododendron sp Note leaves smaller and thinner than R. Catawbiense, plants much smaller, terminal flower clusters

Sarcococca hookeriana   Note short ground cover habit, flower buds in leaf axils, evergreen

Pachysandra terminalis and Pachysandra terminalis 'Variegatus' Note terminal flower clusters, visible stolons

Liriope spicata     Note grass-like foliage

Vinca minor Note, just like Purple leaf winter creeper, this has opposite leaves and white-ish leaf veins - however, the leaf edges are smooth ("entire margins"). And there is no purple coloration.