Asiatic Jasmine
Trachelospermum asiaticum
A tough, fast evergreen groundcover with small, glossy leaves that carpets ground in sun or shade, covers banks and spills from planters, and deer leave it alone. It takes drought, salt and disease once settled. It spreads widely, so cut it back each early spring to keep it in bounds.
- Mature size
- 1 × 3 ft
- 0.3 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
Asiatic Jasmine at its mature size
A mature Asiatic Jasmine grows 0.5 to 2 feet tall and 2 to 12 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Asiatic Jasmine looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Low patch of small glossy dark green leaves.
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Growing Asiatic Jasmine
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Groundcover, climber, shade garden, slopes, deer resistant, fragrant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan and Korea
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Asiatic Jasmine, that’s about 3 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Asiatic Jasmine in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other jasmines
Asiatic Jasmine
Star JasmineAll drawn to the same scale.