Low mounding evergreen shrubs with pale yellow flowers in mid-spring. An excellent foliage plant with attractive red-brown, smooth and peeling bark. The glossy leaves are impressed with a fine pattern of veins and are fringed on their margins with long hairs. The hardiest Maddenia and the parent of many fine dwarf yellow hybrids. A great all-around plant with a compact habit, attractive features and tolerance of both sun and dry soils. Found in forests and alpine regions from 9,500 to 14,000 ft. in SE Tibet and adjacent NW Yunnan, China.
1965/355 BROD (0). Pale yellow flowers.
1968/858 Pale yellow flowers in early spring. (0\R1\3)
1969/831 BRA.L:WAL (0\R1\3). Soft yellow flowers.
1974/071 'Yellow Bunting' R#22302:Glendoick (0\R1\3). An Award of Merit form (1964) of this great garden plant. Dwarf and mounding with red-brown smooth and peeling bark, hairy and glossy leaves and primrose yellow flowers in mid-spring. Relatively sun and drought tolerant once established. The hardiest maddenia.
1976/105 WEB (0).
