
Smokebush
- Botanical Name
- Cotinus coggygria
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 10 to 15 feet
- Width
- 10 to 15 feet
- Flowers
- The actual flowers are tiny and not showy, the structure that holds the flowers is covered with hairs and provides the showy 'smoke'
- Fall Color
- Reddish-purple, orange
- Light
- Full sun to light shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and ranges of pH
- Perfoms well in dry, rocky soils
- Good drainage is essential
- Avoid planting in low lying areas where soil remains wet
- Benefits from a layer of mulch around roots to moderate soil temperatures
- Prune varieties with colorful foliage back to the ground in late winter to promote vigorous, colorful new growth
- Problems
- Rust, leaf spot, verticillium wilt
- Varieties
- Velvet Cloak - dark purple foliage maintains its color throughout the season, attractive purple-pink plumes of 'smoke', reddish-purple fall color
- Royal Purple - dark purple leaves, reddish-purple fall color and 'smoke', 10 to 15 feet tall
- Daydream - bluish-green foliage, purplish 'smoke', yellow-red fall color
- Golden Spirit (Cotinus coggygria 'Ancot') - new leaves emerge chartruse maturing to medium green in summer; fall color ranges from pink, orange, coral to red, 6 to 8 feet tall
- Grace - blue-green leaves, large pink panicles of 'smoke', can be trained as a small tree or large shrub, 15 to 20 feet
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