| Scientific Name: | Euonymus alatus |
| Common Name: | burning bush, winged euonymus, winged burning bush |
| Family Name: | Celastraceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Fall interest, Filler, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Specimen plant, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Green-yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, (Accessory tissue), Orange, Magenta, Red, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub 4-angled, corky 'winged' shoots (alatus means winged); leaves opposite, most elliptic-obovate, 4-7cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, serrulate, dark green turning bright red in fall; capsules reddish-purple with orange fleshing arils. Winter ID: winged shoots. | |