GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS

FAMILY :: LOGANIACEAE
CAROLINA YELLOW JESSAMINE: A handsome vine with highly fragrant, beautiful and deadly (I love this contrast) 1″ bright yellow early spring flowers. Tender down to the mid 20ºs f. and grows best in part shade.

It’s a sedative (central nervous system depressant), nervine, or poison. I saw this plant listed in a Sunset Magazine article as “deer proof.” Actually, the deer love the leaves of this plant and avoid the flowers. The nectar is poisonous. An ornamental in California and the Southern USA.