Carolina Jasmine Fragrant Swamp Jessamine Yellow Spring Flowering Vine Live Plant Starter Sz 4

Gelsemium sempervirens or Carolina Jasmine or Jessamine is a yellow blooming tendriled vine that is native to many southern states from Virginia to Florida and west to Texas.

It goes largely unnoticed all year until it bursts out in bright yellow swags of inch long trumpet shaped flowers hanging through the trees in upland woods and near river banks in the spring. It is a quick growing, easy to establish vine that will quickly cover trellises, arbors, walls or climb in nearby trees. The natural growth habit is to climb and cascade, so it needs little coaxing However it is a fairly well behaved fine growing vine that can be safely used on porches, mailboxes, patios and decks and entry arches. It is easily adapted to container growing, and looks amazing trellised in pots. It can also be used as ground cover and as a erosion stabilizing planting on steep embankments.