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Chinese Fringe Flower
Loropetalum chinense
Also called fringe flower, chinese fringe bush and loropetalum
Chinese Fringe Flower blooms from March through April.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Chinese Fringe Flower
Plant it in part sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 7–9. Expect it to reach about 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 3 years (a house reading).
No toxicity note is on file for Chinese Fringe Flower. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Chinese Fringe Flower
Plant Chinese Fringe Flower in early spring as soon as the soil is workable, or in early fall at least six weeks before your first frost, so roots establish in cool weather. In zone 8, the middle of its hardy zones 7 to 9, spring means February to April and fall means September or October. Once settled, it blooms from March to April.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 8, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 8 in February. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Chinese Fringe Flower get?
8 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult8 ftwideSee Chinese Fringe Flower in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Chinese Fringe Flower
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Give Chinese Fringe Flower about 8 ft of clear ground in every direction, measured from its center. It is one plant with room around it, not a row, and a raised bed is too small for it.
Add Chinese Fringe Flower to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Chinese Fringe Flower's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 8 published sources on September 23, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.
- Missouri Botanical GardenPlant Finderheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- NC State ExtensionGardener Plant Toolboxheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- woodlanders.netWoodlanders (nursery, Aiken, South Carolina)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil and toxicity
- RHSRoyal Horticultural Societyheight, spread, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- edis.ifas.ufl.eduUniversity of Florida IFAS Extension (FPS-355, Gilman, Klein and Hansen)height, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- Oregon State UniversityLandscape Plantsheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, bloom months and color and soil
- treesandshrubsonline.orgTrees and Shrubs Online (International Dendrology Society, Cameron 2025)height, hardiness zones, bloom months and color, trait tags and diseases
- Plant AddictsAre Loropetalum Poisonous?, a genus-level care articlepests and toxicity
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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