#1983 most planted
Stachyurus praecox
Early stachyurus
SpreadingDeciduous
13
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
9.2 yr
median age (69% have a planting date)
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Stachyurus praecox is a spreading deciduous shrub growing up to 13 ft tall and 10 ft wide. It produces pendent, bell-shaped, primrose yellow flowers in winter and spring before its ovate leaves emerge, which turn pink or red in autumn. It prefers acidic, moist, well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade and requires protection from cold winter winds.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 90.01%9.2 yr—
- 40.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Spreading
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 13 ft
- Canopy spread
- 6–10 ft
- Sun
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Acidic, Moist, Well-drained
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
- Blooms
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Dec
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central Korean deciduous forests
- Hokkaido deciduous forests
- Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
- Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Ogasawara subtropical moist forests