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atlanticum

A low-growing and stoloniferous deciduous azalea with blue-green leaves.  The fragrant flowers (late spring) are white, sometimes flushed pink.  An attractive and easily grown azalea with a strong fragrance and adaptable nature.  Tolerant of fairly wet soils.  Native on the coastal plain of the US from Pennsylvania south to Georgia where it occurs in dunes and under pines.

1973/010  HTS#10024-S:USNA  (-15\R1\3).  Propagated from a plant collected in Kent County, Delaware.  Rose buds open to white flowers with rose colored glands.

1974/023  (-15).  Stoloniferous, with glaucous green leaves and fragrant white flushed pink flowers.  A most attractive selection of our native eastern Azalea from Mrs. Julian Hill.

1974/133  HILL  (-15\R1\3).  Flowers white flushed rose and fragrant.

1976/274  HTS#820:NA#10024-USNA  (-10\R1\3).  Deciduous azalea with fragrant white flushed rose flowers in late spring.  Bluish-green leaves with good fall color.  This clone collected in Kent Co., DE.

1976/275  HTS#550:USNA  (-10).  Propagated from a plant collected in Beaufort County, South Carolina.  Flowers white flushed pink and scented.

1981/075  Biltmore  (-15\R1\3).  Nice blue-green foliage and fragrant white flushed pale pink flowers.  This clone collected wild in Beaufort Co., South Carolina.

2000sd145  RSBG  (-15\R1\3).  These are seedlings from a cross between two clones with white flushed rose flowers here in the RSBG.

atlanticum x nudiflorum

1974/023  Mrs. Julian Hill  (-10).  A natural hybrid.  Selected from a hybrid population on Maryland's Choptank River.  Leaves tinted blue as in R. atlanticum, flowers shades of pink as in R. nudiflorum