David Traylor Zoo of Emporia

Plant Type	Common Name	Botanical Name	Plant Height	Plant Spread	Exposure	Zone	Description
Annual	Eyeball plant; Toothache plant	Acmella oleracea	12 to 18 inches	12 to 15 inches	Full Sun to Part Shade	9-11	Produces olive shaped yellow flowers with a mahogany center on arching stems. Foliage color darkens to bronze-green if growing in full sun. Likes high humidity. Blooms repeatedly. If you chew flowers or leaves, it will numb the tongue and gums and possibly produce excess saliva production.
Shrub	Vanhoutte Spirea	Spirea xvanhouttei	6 to 8 feet	10 to 12 feet	Full Sun to Part Shade	3-8	Fountain-like or vase-shaped, round-topped with arching branches recurving to the ground, making a tall broad mound. Foliage is a dull bluish green in summer and fall color is nonexistent or perhaps with an over cast of purple.