Orion Star Flower Anise (Illicium) – 7 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Flowering Shrub

Flower Color:  White

Flower Size:  Medium, 1-3″

Flowering Period:  Spring and again in Late Summer to Fall and sporadically in between

Flower Type:  Semi-Double, Star Shaped

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes

Berries/ Pods:  Yes

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A new and more adaptive hybrid Illicium cross between I. floridanum and I. mexicanum, the Orion Star Flower Anise certainly breaks the mold with a low and mounding habit to only 3 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide and continuous flowering throughout the summer and fall, making it a perfect choice for home foundation plantings and landscape borders. Its abundant 2 to 3 inch star-shaped flowers with green eyes shine like stars against the backdrop of evergreen deep blue-green leaves that have a wonderful anise scent. That said, in full sun the leaves will be more of an olive green color, but still handsome. Extremely adaptable, this hybrid will thrive in moist or dry shade and full sun or shade! What’s more, the deer, rabbits and most other pests turn their nose up to it.

With an upright habit and rounded form to 3 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, Orion Star Flower Anise is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or in groupings or as a low evergreen hedge in home foundation plantings and sunny or shady woodland borders. Perfect for planting under large trees. An excellent home foundation plant. A fine addition to woodland gardens, white them gardens, fragrance gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  4 feet apart for solid hedges;  7 feet or more apart for space between plants