| Scientific Name: | Berberis julianae |
| Common Name: | wintergreen barberry |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Security/barrier |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Obovate, Pectinate, Serrate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Blue, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Large prickly evergreen shrub 1-3m tall; leaves commonly 3 per node, elliptic to oblanceolate, 3-10cm long x 1-3cm wide, margins spinose with 10-20 points, glabrous, petiole 1-4mm long; 3-pointed spiny stipules 1-4cm long at each node; flowers about 7 mm wide, yellow, in clusters of 10-25 at nodes in Mar; berries blue-black, oblong, about 7mm long x 4mm wide. | |