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Oleaceae
Winter Jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum
Cheer in adversity, hope, hidden beauty.
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Genus
- Jasminum
- Native to
- China
- Bloom season
- Winter, Early Spring
- Type
- Deciduous shrub
- Height
- 1–3 m
- Sunlight
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Average, well-drained
- Water
- Low to moderate
- Hardiness
- 6–10
- Lifespan
- Long-lived
Did you know
- Winter jasmine blooms in the dead of winter — sometimes in December or January — opening cheerful yellow flowers on bare green stems when almost nothing else is in flower.
- Despite the name and look, winter jasmine has no scent, unlike its famously fragrant summer-blooming jasmine cousins.
- It's the easiest jasmine to grow and one of the most cold-hardy, surviving zone 6 winters where most jasmines fail.
- The flexible green stems will sprawl as a ground cover or climb a wall if given support — making it useful for steep banks and stone walls.
- Winter jasmine was brought to the West from China by the famous Scottish plant hunter Robert Fortune in 1844.
Color meanings
Yellow
Brightness in cold