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I use the GRIN online query system to determine plant families. The list below shows the plants in my database listed as members of the rubiaceae family. Click on the botanical name of any plant to go to the plant portrait. For a list of all the plant families represented in our garden, see my families page.

Botanical name	Common name	Category	Flowers	Size
Asperula gussonei	woodruff	perennial (Z5-8)	light pink (late spring)	3"
Asperula orientalis	blue woodruff	annual	light blue (late spring)	12"
Cephalanthus occidentalis	buttonbush	shrub (Z5-10)	creamy white	6-8'
Conostomium natalense	wild pentas	shrub	light blue (spring)	20"
Diodia virginiana	large buttonweed	annual	white
Galium aparine	cleavers; catchweed bedstraw	annual
Galium circaezans	liquorice bedstraw	perennial	white
Galium odoratum	sweet woodruff	perennial	white (spring)	6"
Gardenia jasminoides	gardenia	shrub (Z8-10)	white (summer-fall)	5'
Hamelia patens	firebush; scarlet bush	shrub (Z8-11)	red-orange (spring-fall)	to 15'
Ixora coccinea	flame of the woods	shrub (Z9-11)	red (spring-fall)	4-6'
Leptodermis oblonga		shrub (Z5-8)	violet (late spring onward)	12-18"
Manettia cordifolia 'John Elsley'	firecracker vine	perennial (Z7b-10)	red	vine to 8'
Pentas 'Graffiti Red Velvet'		annual/tender perennial (Z8-11	red with white	12-14"
Phuopsis stylosa	creeping crosswort	perennial (Z5-10)	pink (summer)	6-8"
Portlandia grandiflora		shrub
Pseudomussaenda flava	white wing; yellow musaenda	shrub (Z9-11)	yellow (late spring-fall)	36"
Rondeletia leucophylla	Panama rose; bush penta	tender shrub (Z9-11)	red-pink	to 15'
Serissa japonica 'Kowloon'	tree of a thousand stars; snow-rose	shrub (Z8-11)	white	24"

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Last modified: December 11, 2014
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