| Author | (L.) de Candolle | |
| Distribution | Collections of escaped plants are from Graham and Macon counties, from 1980-88. Specimens from Gaston and Wake counties are from cultivated plants.
Native of China and Japan; in N.A. NH to southern Ont., south to SC and AL; UT, WA. | |
| Abundance | Very rare, only locally escaping. | |
| Habitat | Disturbed woods near picnic area, old homesite abandoned 60 years. | |
| Phenology | Flowering April-June. | |
| Identification | Shrub to 6 feet (or more) tall from rhizomes, colonial. Leaves narrowly triangular, sharply double-serrate, taper-pointed. Flowers grow on lateral shoots, 1-2 inches across, yellow (whitish or orangish); single and double forms are cultivated. The berries are shiny black. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Monotypic genus.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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| USACE-agcp | | |
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