| Description | A more compact Ninebark with shades of yellow foliage. |
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| Pronunciation | (fi-so-KAR-pus)(op-u-li-FO-li-us) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-7 |
| Sunlight | full, part shade, part sun |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | small pinkish white, five petaled, in dense flat rounded clusters (corymbs) |
| Fruit | red, drooping inflated seed capsules with 3-5 follicles |
| Leaves | 3-5 lobes, serrated, starts golden yellow, matures to lime green, fall yellow |
| Stems | bark on the older stems is exfoliating revealing layers of inner reddish to light brown bark |
| Dimensions | 5-6 by 5-6 feet |
| Maintenance | early pruning after bloom, can keep this plant to a smaller size and can be cut back hard if needed. Pruning after flowering will eliminate some of the ornamental seed pods. Blooms on old wood produced after blooming. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Selected by South Dakota State University. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) |
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