Kerria - Kerria japonica
Vigorous shrub with green young shoots bearing simple, toothed leaves and solitary 5-petalled yellow flowers. It is often grown in gardens and double flowered varieties also occur as escaper from cultivation.
Hedgerows, verges and waste places often close to habitation.
Flowering May and June.
Deciduous shrub.
Quite widespread particularly in the southern half of Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Main Road, Claybrooke Magna
04 May 2016
var. pleniflora
Steve Mathers
Abbey Park
26 April 2017
Graham Calow
Off Park Road, Cosby
04 April 2016
var. pleniflora
Graham Calow
Main Road, Claybrooke Magna
04 May 2016
var. pleniflora
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 04/04/2016 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 14/03/2024 (Pugh, Dylan)
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