Flowers:
Yellow (Interesting, bright yellow 3" flowers with a dome of stamens on new growth in the summer)
Foliage:
Green (Dark blue-green leaves, glaucous beneath; no appreciable fall color)
Fruit:
Brown (Not ornamentally important)
Soil:
Widely adapted to soils; best in well-drained soil
Range:
Southeastern Europe, Turkey
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Opposite, simple, ovate, sessile leaves (2-4" long by 0.5-1.75" wide) arranged with a decussate phyllotaxy (where leaf pairs, in an opposite arrangement, grow perpindicular to the previous pair). The showy flowers, borne in small cymes, are 2- 3" across with 5 petals and a large dome of numerous long stamens. Stems are 4-angled.
