Scientific name: Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynnwood’

Common name: border forsynthia

Family name: Oleaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 5

Mature height and spread: 2-3m tall and wide

Form: Irregular, arching, open

Water use: low

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement: simple. opposite

Fall colour: bronze, purple

Flower/cone/fruit description: solitary showy yellow flowers. Brown capsule.

Limitations: messy form

Suitable uses: great spring flowering shrub. Yellow stems that are very worty looking

Quick ID: dec. Shrub. Simple. Opposite. Showy yellow flowers. Brown capsule.Lots of buds; laterally compressed nobes. Teeth at tip. Decussate leaves.