Swamp Jessamine
Gelsemium rankinii
Swamp jessamine is a twining Southeastern vine with fragrant yellow trumpet flowers in spring and again in fall, thriving in wet, sunny-to-shaded ground. All parts are toxic.
- Family
- Gelsemiaceae
- Type
- vine
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 5–20 ft
- Spacing
- 3–20 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- February, March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, hummingbirds, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC