Old-Fashioned Weigela

Old-Fashioned Weigela, Weigela

Weigela florida

Honeysuckle Family (Capifoliaceae)

▲ mature flowering shrub

▲ flowers

▲ ▼ cultivar with variegated foliage at the Xeriscape Garden at National and Linwood in Springfield, MO

▲ ▼ pink-flowered cultivar

▲ ▼ dark pink, smaller-growing cultivar

Location near campus: toward west side of Xeriscape Garden; Xeriscape Garden is at northwest corner of National and Linwood, about 3/4 mile south of campus on National Avenue.

Weigela florida: Old-Fashioned Weigela

• leaves deciduous, opposite, simple, ovate to oblong with acuminate tip and serrated margins; leaves 2-4.5" long and 1/3 as wide; leaves medium green and glabrous above and slightly pubescent to tomentose on veins underneath
• stems gray-brown, with 2 rows of hairs running longitudinally from node to node; large circular lenticels and continuous pale brown pith
• size is 6-9' tall and equally to slightly greater width with a spreading mounded habit
• flowers are funnel-shaped and generally shades of light to dark pink on outside, with lighter throat zone, blooming in late spring, but sometimes continuing or reblooming through fall
• fruit is a capsule
• prefers full sun and well-drained soil, but soil adaptable
• need to prune back after flowering to maintain good shape
• medium to fast growth rate