Japanese Kerria Plant

Flowers well in dense shade or full sun.

[93] Japanese Kerria Plant . Kerria japonica pleniflora japanese kerria noted for its green winter stems and yellow spring flowers kerria japonica pleniflora japanese kerria is a vigorous suckering deciduous shrub of great beauty. Prune to maintain the shrub s natural growth pattern. Sometimes called white kerria but single flowers are actually pale creamy yellow with bright yellow stamens.

Japanese kerria is a multi stemmed shrub with new stems appearing from the ground forming a colony. Propagate kerria by dipping 6 inch cuttings into rooting compound and inserting them into moist sand or sterile potting. Pleniflora kerria japonica pleniflora syn.

Its nearly leafless stems are decorated with roselike flowers in midspring. Prune dead branches and twigs any time during the year. Single golden yellow flowers are.

Grows 46 feet tall 68 feet wide. Kerria japanese rose kerria japonica is a versatile shrub with arching greenish yellow stems and masses of golden yellow chrysanthemum like flowers that put on a show in spring. Leaves variably flecked with white and yellow.

This is a shrub that will flower best in partial shade and makes a nice addition to a woodland. Kerria normally grows into a mounded shape. The bright green leaves turn yellow in fall and the stems provide color in the depths of winter after the deciduous foliage is long gone.

In spring it gets covered with bright yellow pom pom like flowers 2 in. It typically grows to 3 6 tall and to 6 8 wide on slender arching yellowish green stems that remain an attractive green in winter. A shrubby plant reaching 4 5 feet high and 6 to 9 feet wide.