Use this page to describe an azalea:

• The complete plant description includes this page, and another page for secondary data, which can be used in either order.
• Use this primary data entry page, or the much simpler minimum data entry page, to enter the data needed to help someone choose azaleas for their landscape.
• Use the secondary data entry page to add the more detailed data needed to identify an azalea.
• Use any of the data entry pages to enter the minimum plant description, which is the plant name and your name.
• If you are not sure about a characteristic, leave it empty.
• To change a description, first retrieve it with the search page, and click the change button on its azalea display page to show the description here.

primary plant data

name help
plant name (required)		translation or derivation
synonyms		numbers (eg, PI, NA, BG, PP)
seed parent		pollen parent
		x
plant type	blooms appear	plant group/species	native location
evergreen deciduous azaleodendron	before leaves before/with leaves after leaves	Abbott Aichele alabamense albrechtii amagianum Amoena annamense arborescens Arendsii Arnold Aronense atlanticum atrovirens Australia & NZ Azaleaodendron Back Acres Beasley Beattie Belgian Glenn Dale Belgian Indian Beltsville Beltsville Dwarfs Bobbink and Atkins boninense Bovee breviperulatum Brooks calendulaceum canadense canescens Carla Carlson-Exbury Carlson-Evergreen Carlson-Natives Cherokee Chinese Chinquapin Hill Chisolm-Merritt chrysocalyx Chugai chunii Coolidge Cornell Cox cumberlandense Czechoslavakian Dawson Deerfield Deckert Diamant Domoto Dosser eastmanii Eden Encore Exbury Exbury Evergreen farrerae Feldyk Ferndown flammeum Fleischmann flumineum Gable Galle Gartrell Garrett Ghent Girard Deciduous Girard Evergreen glandostylum Glenn Dale Greenwood Hager hainanense Hardijzer Harris Hershey Hirado Holmes Huang Ilam indicum japonicum jinpingense jinxiuense kaempferi kanehirai Kerrigan Kehr Knap Hill Korean kiusianum komiyamae Kurume Kuwana kwangsiense kwangtungense Kyushu lasiostylum Leach Lewis lingii Linwood Loblolly Bay longiperulatum luteum macrogemmum macrosepalum mariae mariesii Marlbank Farm Mayo McDonald microphytum minutiflorum molle Mollis Monrovia Mossholder-Bristow mucronatum myrsinifolium naamkwanse nakaharai nipponicum noriakianum North Tisbury Nuccio nudipes occidentale oldhamii otakumii Pender Pennington pentaphyllum Pericat periclymenoides Pride prinophyllum prunifolium Puyallup Valley quinquefolium reticulatum ripense rivulare Robin Hill rubropilosum rufohirtum Rustica Flora Pleno Rutherford Ryukyu saisuense sanctum Sander & Forster sataense Satsuki scabrum schlippenbachii seniavinii serpyllifolium Shammarello sikayotaizense simsii Slocock Slonecker Sonoma Southern Indian Stanton subsessile taiwanalpinnum tamurae tashiroi Ten Oaks tenue tosaense tschonoskii tsusiophyllum tsoi vaseyi viscosum Vuyk Wada Weston weyrichii Wheeldon Whitewater Windsor yakuinsulare yedoense	garden (hybrid) Asia China E Canada E Canada+NE US E US Europe Japan S US SE US W US

flower help
bloom color (up close) help
value/chroma	hue modifier	hue
very pale pale grayish dark grayish blackish very light light medium moderate dark very dark brilliant strong deep very deep vivid	bluish greenish purplish reddish yellowish	black blue brown gray green olive orange orange yellow pink purple red violet white yellow yellow green
color synonyms (eg, RHS, HCC, Ridgway)
color variations click its enter button to describe one at a time (most obvious one first)
variation 1		variation 2
variation 3		variation 4
variation 5		variation 6
garden color (from a distance) help
garden hue modifier	garden hue
bluish greenish purplish reddish yellowish	blue brown gray green olive orange orange yellow pink purple red violet white yellow yellow green
flower type	flower shape	min flower width	max flower width
single hose-in-hose semi-double semi-dbl h/h double double h/h spider	recurved tubular funnel saucer flat bell	0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00	0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00
min flower length	max flower length	flower quantity	flower scent
0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00	0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00	very sparse sparse moderate profuse very profuse	no scent some scent musky sweet spicy
bloom time	fall bloom
very early early early midseason midseason late midseason late very late	no some yes

plant help
shape 1	shape 2	habit
prostrate mounding spreading upright arching weeping irregular	prostrate mounding spreading upright arching weeping irregular	very dense dense open leggy very leggy
exposure	soil
part shade tolerates full sun tolerates full shade	moist tolerates wet tolerates dry
plant height	plant width	at age (years)	min bud hardy zone
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 7 8 9 10	2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24	1 (below -50) 2 (-40 to -50) 3 (-30 to -40) 4 (-20 to -30) 5 (-10 to -20) 6 (0 to -10) 7 (10 to 0) 8 (20 to 10) 9 (30 to 20) 10 (40 to 30) 11 (above 40)
min cold zone (°F)	max cold zone	max heat zone (days>86°F)	min heat zone
1 (below -50) 2 (-40 to -50) 3 (-30 to -40) 4 (-20 to -30) 5 (-10 to -20) 6 (0 to -10) 7 (10 to 0) 8 (20 to 10) 9 (30 to 20) 10 (40 to 30) 11 (above 40)	1 (below -50) 2 (-40 to -50) 3 (-30 to -40) 4 (-20 to -30) 5 (-10 to -20) 6 (0 to -10) 7 (10 to 0) 8 (20 to 10) 9 (30 to 20) 10 (40 to 30) 11 (above 40)	1 (< 1 day) 2 (1 to 7) 3 (7 to 14) 4 (14 to 30) 5 (30 to 45) 6 (45 to 60) 7 (60 to 90) 8 (90 to 120) 9 (120 to 150) 10 (150 to 180) 11 (180 to 210) 12 (> 210)	1 (< 1 day) 2 (1 to 7) 3 (7 to 14) 4 (14 to 30) 5 (30 to 45) 6 (45 to 60) 7 (60 to 90) 8 (90 to 120) 9 (120 to 150) 10 (150 to 180) 11 (180 to 210) 12 (> 210)
your name (required)

secondary data entry

This page is not connected to a database yet, so it will not store any information. When you click the Enter Primary button, it will instead send your data as an email to the website committee, to let them know you tested it.

The page is here for your review. Try using it to describe some real azaleas. You can also see how the information might be displayed (mockup, not the data you entered) at the azalea display page. And you can see how growers and sellers might tell us which plants they sell at the azalea sellers page.

After you look these pages over, please share your experiences and thoughts on them in an email to the website committee.