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Plant Description and Details
Luminous, showy deciduous outshines other shrubs with brilliant display of 1" snow-white, "orange-blossom" scented blooms. Lights up hillsides with its extended bloom from late spring to early summer. Soft green foliage is attractive in its simplicity.Idaho's state flower. Meriwether Lewis of the famed expedition discovered this native gem. This vigorous and dependable shrub forms a vase shape, upright and rather taller than it is wide. Native peoples used the limbs for arrow-making.
| Common Names | Mockorange, Syringa, Bridal Wreath |
| Community | Foothill |
| Annual Water Needs | 15-20 inches |
| Drought Tolerant | Yes |
| Native Range | Rocky hillsides, along waterways, sagebrush deserts, on cliffs, from WA to N. CA, east to ID and MT |
| Native States | CA, ID, MT, OR, WA |
| Hardiness | Down to Zone 5 |
| Exposure | Sun - Part Shade |
| Placement | Shrub borders, sunny parts of garden, specimen shrub in landscape |
| Mature Height | 6 - 12 ft. |
| Mature Width | 6 ft. |
| Group Spacing | 6-12 ft. |
| Blossom Color | White |
| Blooms | Early Summer |
| Establishment Tips | Water at planting and 3-4 times deeply the first summer. |
| Maintenance Tips | For continued bloom from year to year, prune old branches that have borne flowers, leave long shoots of current year for next season's flowers. |
| Wildlife Notes | Birds eat seeds all through winter. |
| Plants Symbol | PHLE4 |
| Family Name | Hydrangeaceae |
| Lewis & Clark | Yes |
