| Scientific Name: | Caragana arborescens |
| Common Name: | Siberian peashrub |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Hedge row, Screening, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Even-pinnate, Elliptic, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Yellow, May |
| Fruit: | Legume, Green-yellow, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, up to 12cm long x 5cm wide, even-pinnately compound with 4-5(-7) pairs of broadly elliptic leaflets 2.5-3.5cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide (may be linear and <1cm wide in some cvs.); flowers yellow, pea-like in axillary clusters, May. Winter ID: buds ovoid, 4-5mm long; rounded leaf scars about 1mm wide between spiny stipules about 5mm long. | |