Yellow Jesamine

Gelsemium sempervirens
(Carolina Jasamine)
Español: Cumino
Climbs by twining.



Train on a fence or arbor, allow to climb trees. Can be used as a groundcover but does not bloom well with that use.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Wildlife

Attracts hummingbirds. 

Birds attracted to the fruits include warblers, grosbeaks, cardinals, mockinbirds, titmice, chickadees, and thrashers.

Habitat

Mesic to xeric hardwood forests and upland mixed forests, secondary woods, bluffs, floodplains, flatwoods, ruderal.

Did You Know?

  • Aroma, fragrance, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
  • Flowers attract bees and butterflies.  Bees include Habropoda laboriosa, Bornbus griseocollis, B. impatiens and Xylocopa virgilzica Krornbeini (Deyrup et al. 2002).