| Small Shrubs (2 to 5 feet) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botanical Name and Common Name | Water Use Zone | NC Hardiness Zone | Texture | Form | Normal Height | Growth Rate | Group | Exposure |
| Aucubajaponica Dwarf Aucuba | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Coarse | Oval | 3-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Shade/Semi-Shade |
| Azaleas, Hybrids | 1, 2 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Upright | 3-5 ft | Slow to Medium | Evergreen | Semi-Shade |
| Berberis thunbergii Japanese Barberry | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Medium | Oval | 3-5 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Buxus microphylla var. jaonica Japanese Boxwood | 1,2,3 | 7a to 8 | Fine | Rounded | 3-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Deutzia gracilis Slender deutsia | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Fine | Mounded | 2-4 ft | Medium | Semi-Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Gardenia radicans Creeping Gardenia | 1,2 | 7a to 8 | Fine | Spreading | 2-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Semi-Shade |
| Hydrongea arborescens 'Annabelle' Smooth Hydrangea | 1, 2 | 6b to 8 | Coorse | Rounded | 3-5 ft | Fast | Semi-Evergreen | Sun |
| Ilex cornuta 'Carissa' Carissa Holly | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Medium | Rounded | 3-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Ilex cornuta 'Rotunda' Dwarf Chinese Holly | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Coarse | Rounded | 3-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Ilex crenata 'Compacta' Compact Holly | 1,2 | 6b to 7 | Fine to Medium | Rounded | 3-4 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Ilex crenata 'Green Lustre' | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Fine to Medium | Rounded | 3-5 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Ilex crenata 'Helleri' (Heller) Japanese holly | 1,2 | 6b to 7 | Fine | Spreading | 2-3 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Semi-Shade |
| Ilex cranata 'Hetzi' Hetz Holly | 1,2 | 6b to 7 | Fine to Medium | Rounded | 4-5 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' Dwarf Yaupon Holly | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Rounded | 3-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Itea virginica Virginia Sweetspire | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8b | Medium Branching | Upright | 3-5 ft | Medium | Deciduous | Sun/Shade |
| Jaminum floridum Showy Jasmine | 1,2,3 | 8 | Medium | Upright | 3-5 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Jasminum nudiflorum Winter Jasmine | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Mounded Spreading | 3-4 ft | Fast | Evergreen | Sun/Shade |
| Juniperus davurica 'Expansa' Parsons Juniper | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Spreading | 2 ft | Medium to Fast | Conifer | Sun |
| Juniperus hoirizontalis 'Plumosa,' Andorra Juniper | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Spreading | 2 ft | Slow | Conifer | Sun |
| Kerria japonica Japanese Kerria | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Medium | Upright Arching | 3-5 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun |
| Lonicera pileata Privet Honeysuckle | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Medium | Oval | 2-3 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Nandina domestica 'Harbour Dwarf' or 'Gulf Stream' | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Upright layered | 2-3 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Shade |
| Pittosporum tobira 'Nana,' Dwarf Pittosporum | 1,2 | 7b to 8 | Medium | Spreading | 3-4 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Pyracantha koidzumii 'Santa Cruz' | 1,2,3 | 7b to 8 | Medium | Prostrate Spreading | 2-3 ft | Medium | Evergreen | Sun |
| Rhaphiolepis indica Indian Hawthorne | 1,2,3 | 7 to 3 | Medium | Spreading | 2-4 ft | Slow | Evergreen | Sun |
| Spirea x burmalda Bumald Spirea | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Fine | Mounded | 2-3 ft | Fast | Deciduous | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Spirea nipponica 'Snowmound' | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8a | Fine | Mounded | 3-5 ft | Fast | Deciduous | Sun/Semi-Shade |
| Spirea thunbergii Thunberg Spirea | 1,2,3 | 6b to 8 | Fine | Irregular | 3-4 ft | Medium | Deciduous | Sun |