This twinning climber can form a shrubby habit with slender woody stems. It has dark green lanced-shaped leaves and the golden yellow fragrant funnel-shape flowers appear solitary from late winter to spring.

Hardiness zones 8 to 11

Gelsemium sempervirens is naturally found from to Florida to Texas and south Virginia in south-east North America and extending to Guatemala growing in thickets and dry or wet woodlands. 

It prefers a well drained fertile moist sandy to light clay soil that is tending acidic with a pH range from 5.5 to 7.2 and grows in an open sunny to semi shaded position tolerating light frost but is drought tender. 

The Carolina Yellow Jasmine is grown for its fragrant flowers and scrambling habit. It is grown over fences or structures for screening or on pergolas for shade. It is also trained into trees or forms a mounded habit in open areas. It is fast growing and will establish in one season and is long lived. This twiner is also planted around entrances for its perfume or used on wire topiary. ID 131

Gelsemium (gel-SEM-ee-um) sempervirens (sem-per-VI-rens)

'Gelsemium': Latin name for jasmine; 'sempervirens': evergreen.

Loganiaceae (LO-gan-ee-AY-see-ee)