| Scientific Name: | Berberis x stenophylla |
| Common Name: | narrow-leaf barberry |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, U.S. - northwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense, Twiggy |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Filler, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Security/barrier |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Falcate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Orange, Yellow, Apr |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Blue, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Arching evergreen shrub; leaf narrowly elliptic-linear, most 1-2cm long x 2-3mm wide, apex spine-tipped, margin revolute (turned under like a capsized canoe), upper surface glossy and dark green top, whitish underside; 3 small spines at leaf axil. | |