Globe Russian Peashrub, Globe Caragana                        kar-a-GA-na FRU-tex

• Deciduous shrub, compact, multi-stemmed, rounded, slow-growing, 4 ft (1.2 m) tall and 3 ft (0.9 m) wide, branches glabrous, stipules spiny, short.  Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, 4 leaflets, linear-oblanceolate, 8-15 mm long, tip spiny pointed, bluish-green, turn bright yellow in fall.  Flowers pea-like, small, yellow.  Fruit pod-like, about 2-3 cm long.
• Sun or light shade.  Adaptable, very cold hardy.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 2         Native to Siberia and Mongolia.
• frutex: Latin, a shrub.