Seasonal Wild Flowers

Hedge Barberry

Berberis darwinii x B. empetrifolia (B. x stenophylla)

Berberidaceae

March to May - but I have seen the flowers opening in

January.

Naturalised escapes are thinly scattered throughout

the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Hedge Barberry

It is a neophyte and a hybrid. It arose in the North in

the mid 1800s and is widely planted in gardens,

amenity areas and parks.

It has been known in the wild since the 1930s and

escapes

grow in hedges and by roads and paths.

Hedge Barberry is a frost-hardy, spiny, evergreen

shrub, growing up to 3m.

Leaves are narrower and spinier than Barberry.

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