| Description | A green thorny, medium size shrub for the full sun to part sun areas of the garden. |
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| Pronunciation | (Ber-ber-is)(thun-BER-jee-a) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full to part sun |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | pale yellow, borne in pendulous racemes |
| Fruit | red berries |
| Leaves | simple, green, turning yellow and oranges in the fall |
| Stems | covered with spines |
| Roots | fibrous, roots can be boiled to dye cloth yellow |
| Dimensions | 5 by 5 plus feet, or kept smaller by pruning probably 3 by 3 to 4 by 4 is as small as you want to go |
| Maintenance | prunable to control size and shape |
| Propagation | I have rooted barberry from cuttings and the rooted stems have yellow roots, seeds |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) |
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