General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Shrub
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
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| Water Preferences: |
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
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| Soil pH Preferences: |
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
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| Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
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| Maximum recommended zone: |
Zone 8b
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| Plant Height: |
5 to 6 feet, to 8 feet |
| Plant Spread: |
6 to 8 feet, to 15 feet |
| Leaves: |
Good fall color
Deciduous
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| Fruit: |
Showy
Edible to birds
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| Fruiting Time: |
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Late fall or early winter
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| Flowers: |
Inconspicuous
Blooms on old wood
Other: tiny but make a nice effect
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| Flower Color: |
Yellow
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| Bloom Size: |
Under 1"
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| Flower Time: |
Spring
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| Uses: |
Windbreak or Hedge
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| Wildlife Attractant: |
Bees
Birds
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| Resistances: |
Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Pollution
Tolerates dry shade
Humidity tolerant
Drought tolerant
Salt tolerant
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| Propagation: Seeds: |
Self fertile
Stratify seeds: seeds require a cooling period prior to germination and are best planted in the Fall
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
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| Propagation: Other methods: |
Cuttings: Stem
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| Pollinators: |
Various insects
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| Miscellaneous: |
Tolerates poor soil
With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Monoecious
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- Japanese Barberry
- Barberry
Posted by
SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Nov 24, 2011 10:13 AM concerning plant:
Easy to root from stem cuttings. Will often root where branches touch the ground and long branches can be bent over to the ground and weighted with a heavy object to root.
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Sep 12, 2018 11:07 AM concerning plant:
Because this shrub is so nasty to touch or work around from of all its many sharp thorns, I have never loved it in my whole horticultural career for decades. It has a beauty of pretty, fine-textured foliage and good orange or red fall color, but I would not miss seeing it in landscapes. This mother species with green foliage gets to be 5 to 8 feet high and 6 to 15 feet wide with a very dense, rounded habit, though when not old or if properly pruned it can have a nice informal habit. By itself it eventually becomes a horribly dense mass of stems and twigs. Many homeowners shear barberry into weird meatball or squarish forms or make it into a sheared low or medium height hedge. It bears lots of orange football-shaped fruit that some kinds of birds eat and spread the seed around, so that it becomes an invasive east Asian plant in and around woods. It makes a great shelter for deer ticks and other ticks in the wild. This mother species is not used or sold much in the trade, but there is a huge number of cultivars of dwarf, compact, purple-red, rose, or yellow foliaged mutations used a lot in many landscapes in the US.
Posted by
Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Sep 21, 2011 4:24 PM concerning plant:
Valuable source of nectar and pollen for honey bees
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