| Scientific Name: | Caryopteris x clandonensis |
| Common Name: | bluebeard |
| Family Name: | Verbenaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Open, Upright |
| Form: | Irregular, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Blue, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Nut, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems reddish; leaves opposite, lanceolate, most blades 4-9cm long x 1-2.2 cm wide, margins with 2-4 irregular dentations; flower open, spikey and blue. Winter ID: twiggy low shrub; buds and accessory buds, <1mm long, pubescent, slowly opening up in Feb-Mar. | |