Plant: Kerria - Japanese Rose
Japanese Rose · Kerria japonica
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
A fine textured deciduous shrub with arching, multi stemmed growth and slender green zig zag canes that stay green through winter. Bright yellow saucer shaped flowers about 2 inches across open at the branch ends in April and May, and the bright green doubly serrate leaves take on some yellow in fall. It grows in dappled to deep shade in loamy, well drained soil, tolerates deer and drought, and suckers to form colonies, which suits it to informal hedges, mass plantings and woodland edges.
- Full Shade
- Grows to 7 ft tall and 9 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A fine textured deciduous shrub with arching, multi stemmed growth and slender green zig zag canes that stay green through winter. Bright yellow saucer shaped flowers about 2 inches across open at the branch ends in April and May, and the bright green doubly serrate leaves take on some yellow in fall. It grows in dappled to deep shade in loamy, well drained soil, tolerates deer and drought, and suckers to form colonies, which suits it to informal hedges, mass plantings and woodland edges.
- Flowers
- Bright yellow saucer shaped flowers about 2 inches across at the terminal ends in April and May, usually with 5 petals; a double flowered cultivar is available.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, doubly serrate and plicate; bright green and glabrous above, paler and slightly pubescent on the veins below; 1.5 to 4 inches long and slightly over an inch wide, with some yellow in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Slender, green, zig zag, glabrous, glossy, supple, cane like and suckering, branching in the second season of growth.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Native range
- Central and Southern China to Southern Korea and Japan
