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Korean Stewartia
Stewartia pseudocamellia Koreana Group
Korean Stewartia blooms from June through July.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Korean Stewartia
Plant it in part sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 5–8. Expect it to reach about 16 ft tall and 11 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 15 years (a house reading).
No toxicity note is on file for Korean Stewartia. 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 Korean Stewartia
Plant Korean Stewartia 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 6, the middle of its hardy zones 5 to 8, spring means March to May and fall means August or September. Once settled, it blooms from June to July.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 6, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 6 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Korean Stewartia get?
16 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult11 ftwideSee Korean Stewartia 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 Korean Stewartia
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Give Korean Stewartia about 11 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 Korean Stewartia 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
Korean Stewartia's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 7 published sources on August 11, 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.
- plantdatabase.uconn.eduUConn Plant Databaseheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- RHSRoyal Horticultural Societyhardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil, diseases and pests
- University of Arkansas ExtensionUniversity of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Exte...height, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags and soil
- Pleasant Run Nurseryheight, spread, hardiness zones and bloom months and color
- Sooner Plant Farmheight, spread, hardiness zones and diseases
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govInternational Journal of Molecular Medicine, via PubMedtoxicity
- treesandshrubsonline.orgTrees and Shrubs Online (International Dendrology Society)height
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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