| Scientific Name: | Rhododendron 'Purple Splendor' |
| Common Name: | purple splendor azalea |
| Family Name: | Ericaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Sheared hedge, Spring interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Elliptic, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Purple, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Small evergreen; leaves narrowly elliptic, most 4-6cm long x 1-2cm wide, dark green, pubescent; flowers vivid reddish-purple with darker blotch should be hose in hose (specimen shown and on campus has the outer hose is partially formed). | |