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Cotinus coggygria 'Atropurpureus' = 'Purpureus'

Cotinus coggygria 'Black Velvet'
lc: dark purple
fq: more numerous than typical
or: S. Campbell of Sebastopol CA c. 1994 selected from superior seedlings

Cotinus coggygria 'Cooke's Purple'
fc: inflor. purple
in: Greer Gardens to US c. 1992

Cotinus coggyria 'Daydream'
ha: more compact, ovoid
lc: dark blue-green
fq: more floriferous
fc: brown becoming red to pink shades
pat: US #1844 in 1959
or: Henry Kleine to Newport Nur. of MI

Cotinus coggygria DUMMER HYBRIDS = see 'Grace', the best known example

Cotinus coggygria 'Flame'
ha: taller than most other cultivars
afc: bright orange to red over yellow
fc: pink
or: Hillier Nursery UK, possibly a hybrid to C. obovatus but this is not confirmed
eval: popular in Europe but not widely sold in the US

Cotinus coggygria 'Foliis Purpureus'
lc: bright plum purple becoming light red to reddish-green
id: grown from seed and quite variable in the trade today. Purple-flowered plants with green leaves are
id: referrable to 'Purpureus'
aw: RHS AM 1921, AGM 1930

Cotinus coggygria 'Foliis Purpureus Notcutt's Variety' = 'Notcutt's Variety'

GOLDEN SPIRIT™ 'Ancot' - click image to enlarge
Perennial Border, Raulston Arboretum. May 2003. A lovely color and texture for the mixed border or shrub border. The round golden coins that are the leaves are bright from spring to late summer.  This is one of the most useful of gold-leaved shrubs  and is a worthy introduction.

Cotinus coggygria GOLDEN SPIRIT™ 'Ancot'
lc: bright golden yellow, especially in spring. Nice translucent color when backlit.
afc: yellow, orange, red, coral pink
in: European trade c. 2000
or: Willem A. Sanders, Holland, found in his nursery among 40,000 seedlings in 1990.
photo, article: Plants Magazine
so: RareFindNursery

Cotinus coggygria 'Green Mist' (6/02)
infl: mist-like and colored green
lc: green
afc: orange and yellow
lu: used for contrast with colors of other colorations.
in, so: Arborvillage Fall 2001/Spring 2002 Catalog.

Cotinus coggygria 'Kanari'
afc: golden-yellow, showy

Cotinus coggygria 'Kromhout' = 'Royal Purple'

Cotinus coggygria 'Nordine'
lc: purplish-red, persisting well into summer in the Midwest
afc: yellow to orange shades
or: Morton Arboretum as selection

Cotinus coggygria 'Notcutt's Variety'
lc: dark reddish-purple
fc: purplish-pink
or: Notcutt's Nur. UK?
eval: considered an improved 'Foliis Purpureus' type
ns: this name was validly published before the word "variety" was banned from cultivar names.

Cotinus coggygria 'Old Fashioned' (12/3)
lc: purple new growth becomes blue-green with purple petioles
fc: pinkish
in: hkolster.nl (online catalog 2003)

Cotinus coggygria 'Pendulus'
ha: weeping
or: Europe c. 1885 and probably extinct.

Cotinus coggygria 'Pink Champagne' ('Pop's Pink Champagne')
ht: 6-8 ft. - shorter than most cultivars
ha: more compact than species typical and most cultivars
fc: pure pink
fq: more abundant
lc: bronze-green becoming bright green, contrasting nicely with the dark purple cultivars when interplanted.
or: Elden Evans (Evans Farms of Oregon City OR) c. 1988
so: Forest Farm

Cotinus coggygria 'Purple Supreme'
ht: 8-10 ft.
lc: purple most of the spring and summer
fc: purple fading more pink
or: Sjulin Nursery, IA USA
in: Greer Gardens to US c. 1992

Cotinus coggygria 'Purpureus' ('Atropurpureus', f. purpureus)
lc: green, often tinged purple or red. Very purple seedlings are usually 'Purpureus' or a similar seedling.
fc: purplish pink, in varying shades
ns: this is not 'Foliis Purpureus' which is reserved by RHS tradition for a different variation. The name f. purpureus
ns: is not preferred here since a forma should be reserved for wild occuring variations. The botanical form once
ns: functioned like a cultivar name but such a rank is not justified today.
id: this name should only represent green-leaved variants, the flowers only being purple. Doubtless it
id: is confused with 'Foliis Purpureus'. Their respective seedlings will be quite variable, allowing one to find an
id: entire range of leaf and inflorescence colors. Plants under this name in the US trade are usually purple-leaved
id: and are almost certainly of the 'Foliis Purpureus' group.
aw: RHS AM 1948, AGM 1969

Cotinus coggygria 'Red Beauty'
ha: dense, vigorous, strong in production nurseries
lc: bright reddish-purple new growth becoming dark red
or: Holland

Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'
ha: more compact than species typical
lc: dark reddish-purple becoming redder in summer and fall, darker than old 'Notcutt's Variety'
fd: infl. 15-20cm long
or: Boskoop, Netherlands
ch: Dirr says it is less cold hardy than 'Nordine'
aw: RHS AGM 1969

Cotinus coggygria 'Rubrifolius' = 'Notcutt's Variety' and perhaps 'Purpureus'

Cotinus coggyria 'Smokey Joe' (10/4)
lc: green
infl: large and smokey
so: Blooms-online.com (online catalog 2004)

Cotinus coggygria 'Velvet Cloak'
lc: dark purple all summer - longer than other clones known when found
lc: said to lack marginal discoloration of other purple clones
frc: 'fawn colored' or soft beige
or: Newport Nursery of Newport MI by Henry Kleine of Horse Shoe NC in 1962
in: Cole Nursery of Circleville OH in 1969
id: Dr. Mike Dirr and others debate if there is a good dinstinction between this and 'Royal Purple'. We currently
id: maintain that they are highly similar but apparently have different origins, this one from the US and the other
id: from Holland. No doubt a very good clone will resemble another very good clone. Chemotaxonomic or DNA
id: analysis would be very welcome.
li: Wyman, D. 1969. Plant registrations. Arnoldia 29(1): 2-3

Cotinus coggygria 'Westonbirt Orange' (5/02)
so, ns: a listed with Esveld (online catalog 2002). We can guess where it came from and also its fall color.

Cotinus coggygria 'Young Lady' (3/02)
fq: floriferous with every terminal shoot blooming
bt: June-August
afc: orange-red, showy
or: Hendrik Kolster, Boskoop, Netherlands
pat: PPAF
so: RareFindNursery
in, wholesale source: Spring Meadow Nursery 2002 (online catalog 2001)

'Grace' - click image to enlarge
Raulston Arboretum. May 2003. A simply amazing tree full of smokey clouds. It is more impressive than any C. coggygria cultivar we know.

Cotinus 'Grace' (C. coggygria 'Velvet Cloak' x C. obovatus)
ht: 15-20 ft.
lc: new growth reddish, showy, becoming blue-green
ll: 4-6 in.
lw: 3 in.
fc: greyish-pink
fd: inflor. to 14 in. tall x 11 in. wide - very large
or: Peter Dummer, Hillier Nurseries UK as hybrid 1978
so: RareFindNursery
so: Forest Farm

Cotinus KOLCOT 'Green Fountain' (6/02)
ns: a listed name from Europe. Description needed.

Cotinus obovatus 'Red Leaf'
afc: reliably red in fall