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Plant Introduction Fact Sheets and Award Winners

Below is a list of the US National Arboretum Fact Sheets. Our 15 Gold Medal Winners or All-America Selection® Winners are designated with this icon:

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Click here to see three full-color posters featuring some of our best woody plant introductions. One poster features our superior tree introductions, while a second one focuses on our most outstanding shrub cultivars. The third poster is devoted solely to our well-known crapemyrtle introductions.

Acer rubrum ‘Brandywine’ (red maple)

Acer rubrum ‘Somerset’ and ‘Sun Valley’ (red maple)

Aucuba japonica ‘Petite Jade’ (Japanese aucuba)

Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Duet’ (beautyberry)

Camellia japonica ‘Anacostia’ (common camellia)

Camellia oleifera ‘Lu Shan Snow’ (tea-oil camellia)

Camellia ‘Polar Ice’, ‘Snow Flurry’, ‘Winter’s Hope’, ‘Winter’s Rose’, ‘Winter’s Star’, and ‘Winter’s Charm’ (hybrid camellia)

Capsicum annuum ‘Black Pearl’ (ornamental pepper)

Cercis chinensis ‘Don Egolf’ (Chinese redbud)

Clethra alnifolia ‘Firefly’ (summersweet)

Deutzia gracilis ‘Nikko’ (slender deutzia)

Deutzia ×rosea ‘Nikko Blush’ (hybrid deutzia)

Euonymus japonicus ‘Green Spire’ (Japanese euonymus)

Hamamelis virginiana ‘Sunglow’ (common witch-hazel)

Hibiscus syriacus ‘Aphrodite’, ‘Helene’, and ‘Minerva’ (rose-of-Sharon)

Hibiscus syriacus ‘Diana’ (rose-of-Sharon)

Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Munchkin’ (oakleaf hydrangea)

Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Queen of Hearts’ (oakleaf hydrangea)

Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Ruby Slippers’ (oakleaf hydrangea)

Ilex ‘Cherry Bomb’ (hybrid holly)

Ilex crenata ‘Sky Pencil’ (Japanese holly)

Ilex ‘Sparkleberry’ (hybrid winterberry)

Ilex ×attenuata ‘Sunny Foster’ (topel holly)

Juniperus rigida subsp. conferta ‘Blue Lagoon’ (shore juniper)

Lagerstroemia ‘Acoma’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Apalachee’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Arapaho’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Cheyenne’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Chickasaw’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Lipan’, ‘Sioux’, ‘Tonto’, and ‘Yuma’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Natchez’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Lagerstroemia ‘Pocomoke’ (hybrid crapemyrtle)

Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Blush’ and ‘Burgundy (Chinese fringeflower)

Loropetalum chinense var. chinense ‘Snow Panda’ (Chinese fringeflower)

Magnolia ‘Ann’, ‘Betty’, ‘Jane’, ‘Judy’, ‘Pinkie’, ‘Randy’, ‘Ricki’, and ‘Susan’ (hybrid magnolias)

Magnolia ‘Galaxy’ (hybrid magnolia)

Malus ‘Adirondack’ (flowering crabapple)

Ornithogalum ‘Chesapeake Blaze’, ‘Chesapeake Sunburst’, and ‘Chesapeake Sunset’ (hybrid sun star)

Platanus ×hispanica ‘Columbia’ and ‘Liberty’ (London planetree)

Prunus campanulata ‘Abigail Adams’ (Taiwan cherry)

Prunus ‘Dream Catcher’ (flowering cherry)

Prunus ×incam ‘First Lady’ (flowering cherry)

Prunus ‘Helen Taft’ (flowering cherry)

Pyracantha ‘Apache’ (hybrid firethorn)

Pyracantha ‘Teton’ (hybrid firethorn)

Rhododendron Glenn Dale hybrid azaleas (evergreen azalea)

Styrax japonicus ‘Burgundy Moon’ (Japanese snowbell)

Styrax japonicus ‘Spring Showers’ (Japanese snowbell)

Syringa ‘Betsy Ross’ (lilac)

Syringa ×hyacinthiflora ‘Declaration’ (early-flowering lilac)

Syringa ×hyacinthiflora ‘Old Glory’ (early-flowering lilac)

Thuja ‘Green Giant’ (hybrid arborvitae)

Tsuga ‘Traveler’ (hybrid hemlock)

Ulmus ‘Frontier’ (hybrid elm)

Ulmus americana ‘Jefferson’ (American elm)

Ulmus americana ‘New Harmony’ (American elm)

Ulmus ‘Patriot’ (hybrid elm)

Ulmus davidiana var. japonica ‘Prospector’ (Japanese elm)

Ulmus americana ‘Valley Forge’ (American elm)

Viburnum ×rhytidophylloides ‘Alleghany’ (lantanaphyllum viburnum)

Viburnum ×carlcephalum ‘Cayuga’ (fragrant snowball viburnum)

Viburnum ‘Chippewa’ and ‘Huron’ (hybrid viburnum)

Viburnum ×burkwoodii ‘Conoy’ (Burkwood viburnum)

Viburnum ‘Eskimo’ (hybrid viburnum)

Viburnum ×burkwoodii ‘Mohawk’ (Burkwood viburnum)

Viburnum lantana ‘Mohican’ (wayfaring tree)

Viburnum ‘Nantucket’ (hybrid viburnum)

Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum ‘Shasta’ (doublefile viburnum)