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'