Plant Uses & Characteristics

• Height- 4-6 ft.
• Spread- 4-6 ft.
• Foliage Color- Purple
• Flower Color- Purple
• Flowering Period: Spring
• Accent- Attractive to pollinators, rebloomer, fragrant.

Growing Conditions

• ​​Sun Exposure- Full sun
• Hardiness Zone- 3-7
• Growth Rate- Moderate

Royal Purple Smokebush displays beautiful, velvety, dark purple foliage throughout the growing season, with panicles of smoky-purple to beige flowers blooming in mid-summer.  This gives the effect of a cloud of smoke.  It is a tough and tolerant shrub, requiring well-drained soil; and Royal Purple Smokebush thrives in part to full sun. The leaves are greener in shade, burgundy in full sun.

Royal Purple Smokebush

​Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'