Average Landscape Size: Little Leaf Cordia grows 4 to 6 feet high and up to 8 feet wide. Key Features: Little Leaf Cordia is deciduous in the winter so that is the best time to trim. Blooms: Flowers spring through fall. Poisonous: No. One underused plant in the southwest garden is little leaf cordia (Cordia parvifolia). There are so many reasons to love this underused, native shrub… - it is evergreen in zones 8 and above - thrives in areas with full, reflected sun - is drought tolerant - needs no fertilizer - rarely needs to be pruned
Little Leaf Cordia Star Nursery Garden and Rock Centers
Little-leaf cordia is an evergreen shrub with twisting branches and a mounding habit growing 8-12 ft. high and as wide. Small olive-green leaves, to 1/2 in. long are heavily veined; clusters of showy white flowers grow at the ends of branches in spring. Cordia parvifolia (Little Leaf Cordia) Shrub When summer temperatures and humidity soar, this Mexican native will provide some visual relief. Warm, humid conditions trigger blooming, resulting in a profusion of snowy white blossoms. This tough evergreen shrub is easy to grow and maintenance-free. It forms a naturally dense wide-spreading shrub. Plant Height : 6 to 10 feet Plant Width : 6 to 10 feet Tolerance : Drought Tolerant Moisture : Dry to Medium Bloom Time : Early Fall, Early Summer, Late Spring, Late Summer, Summer Growth Rate : Fast Light : Full Sun to Partial Shade Maintenance : Low Plant Type : Shrubs Plant Seasonal Interest : Spring Interest Flower Color : White Related Plants The plant is hardy to eighteen degrees Fahrenheit and suffers during severe frosts. It drops its foliage if it is drought stressed, but recovers quickly during the summer monsoons. Plant it in full sun with reflected heat or partial shade. It is drought resistant, but responds better with supplemental irrigation.
Little Leaf Cordia Star Nursery Garden and Rock Centers
Product Description The Little Leaf Cordia (Cordia parvifolia) is a very easy plant to grow and blooms beautifully in the warm-humid days of Valley summers. Durable in heat and cold, the Little Leaf Cordia will delight with snowy white flowers popping out in the dog days of summer! Catalog Little Leaf Cordia - Cordia… Aside from some notable cacti, white-flowering desert plants are hard to come by, but this desert native proves it can be done elegantly with exceptional tolerance of drought, full sun, and sweltering heat. Average Landscape Size: Little Leaf Cordia grows 4 to 6 feet high and up to 8 feet wide. Key Features: Little Leaf Cordia is deciduous in the winter so that is the best time to trim. Blooms: Flowers spring through fall. Little Leaf Cordia Cordia parvifolia. Native to Baja California, this Cordia is known by its common name of Little Leaf Cordia partly due to its smaller gray-green leaves and abundance of delicate snowy white flowers that pop out during the summer months. Don't let its soft look fool you, Cordia parvifolia is a tough and durable medium to.
Little Leaf Cordia (Cordia parvifolia)
Scientific Name: Cordia parvifolia Common Name: Little-leaf Cordia Also Called: Small-leaf Geigertree, Smallleaf Cordia; (Spanish: Vara Prieta, Palo Prieto, San Juanito) Family: Boraginaceae, Forget-Me-Not Family Synonyms: () Status: Native Duration: Perennial Size: About 6 to 8 tall, can grow as wide or wider as it is tall. Scientific Name: Cordia parvifolia Common Name: Little Leaf Cordia Family: Boraginaceae Suggested Uses: Seasonal accent, desert garden, full sun specimen CHARACTERISTICS: Dimensions: 6ft x 6ft Foliage: dark, velvet-esque green/silver leaves Flower: White Bloom Period: late spring - early autumn Fruit: brown seed pods Bark: textured brown
Cordia parvifolia Accession Count: 40 Common Name: littleleaf cordia Find this plant on campus Family Name: Boraginaceae Botanical Name: Cordia parvifolia Sub Species: Variety: Forma: Cultivar: Characteristics: Cordia parvifolia is a deciduous shrub with gray-green leaves, which are ovate in shape, and one and a half inches long. Cordia Species, Little Leaf Cordia. Cordia parvifolia. Upload Image Print Version View Gallery 5 photos. Upload Image Print Version Genus Cordia (KOR-dee-uh) Info. Species parvifolia (par-vee-FOH-lee-uh) Info. Synonym Cordia greggii.
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little leaf cordia CORE-dee-a par-vi-FO-lee-a (only when in flower), background, screen, filler, large scale bank cover, usually best planted in groups in xeric or desert landscape themes. Rounded, open, sprawling to unruly, but innocent, slightly recessive, informal Little-leaf cordia ( Cordia parvifolia) is the perfect addition to the desert landscape, where it adds beauty with its distinctive white flowers while also handling hot, reflected sun and temperatures into the teens.