This page is not yet connected to a database, so it will not retrieve any azalea information. When you click the Search button at the end, it instead sends your data as an e-mail to the website committee, to let them know the page is being tested.

We are showing the page to let you critique the characteristics and menu entries. They are easiest to judge by using the page to describe azaleas you might be interested in finding.

You can also see how the information might be displayed (mockup, not your search results) at azalea display.

To share your experiences, and thus influence the design of this page, send an email to the website committee.

This search finds azaleas to meet specific needs in your landscape. Choose an entry from one or more of these menus to describe your needs. You can see more information about each menu, below.

Remember less is more -- the fewer entries you choose, the more results you will find, and vice versa.

bloom color	bloom time	cold zone-min (°F)
any blue gray green olive orange pink purple red violet white yellow	any very early early early midseason midseason late midseason late very late	any 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 (below 40)
plant height (feet)	plant shape	plant group/species
any 0.5-1 (very low) 1-3 (low) 3-5 (medium) 5-8 (tall) 8-15 (very tall)	any weeping prostrate upright spreading mounding arching irregular	any 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
plant type	database	missing data
any evergreen deciduous azaleodendron	standard pending both	include if no data exclude if no data

After choosing the menu entries you wish, click the Search button to find all the azaleas with matching characteristics. The results of the search are shown as a list of the azaleas matching your search criteria, with its name and a few other characteristics such as bloom color and bloom time. Click the name of an azalea in that list to show all of its information we know about it.

Azalea names in the search results are shown without the Rhododendron genus name. Cultivar names are shown with enclosing apostrophes and with initial capital letters, such as 'Bright Eyes'. Species are shown without apostrophes and with initial lowercase letters, such as vaseyi.

Links on the list of search results let you format the information for printing on 1'' x 7'' plant labels, or for use in a spreadsheet or wordprocessing program, or to meet your unique needs.

bloom color - the garden effect, which is the overall flower color as viewed from a distance, such as 20 feet away

bloom time - relative bloom times. The actual dates vary due to latitude. In middle latitudes of the United States such as the Washington DC area, the periods mean:

• very early = before March 15
• early = between March 15 and April 15
• early midseason = between April 15 and May 1
• midseason = between May 1 and May 15
• late midseason = between May 15 and June 1
• late = between June 1 and July 1
• very late = after July 1

cold zone-min (°F) - the coldest average winter temperature for your area. The search will include plants that are known to survive that temperature and warmer temperatures.

plant height (feet) - a range of heights of the plant in about 10 years, in feet. The "10 year height" is usually the height given in books and on plant labels. The search will include plants in the range you chose.

plant shape - the overall shape of the plant under normal growing conditions

plant group/species - the name of the species or hybrid group of the azaleas you are interested in, such as Kurume

plant type - whether it is deciduous (drops its leaves in the fall), evergreen (really "persistent leaved", with leaves growing in the spring and in the summer, and usually keeping them more than one year), or an azaleodendron (crosses between azaleas and rhododendrons - there are very few of these)

database - which database(s) to search. The standard database contains azaleas whose data have been reviewed and are known to be as correct as possible. The pending database contains azaleas which have been entered since the last review.

missing data - we don't know all the characteristics of all the azaleas. Choose include if no data to show azaleas with matches for some of your menu entries, even if they are empty for some of the other ones. Choose exclude if no data to insist on exact matches for all of your menu entries, ie, don't show azaleas with unknown entries for any of the characteristics you are interested in.