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Caragana also has its own flower name, did you know that?

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Caragana is a deciduous clumping shrub, growing up to 1.5 m tall. It also has an elegant name, "yellow sparrow flower." Because its form is like a flying sparrow and its color is golden yellow, it is called "golden sparrow flower."

Other names for Caragana

Caragana is also called yellow sparrow flower, earth soybean, sticky sock, sauce petal, sun sparrow flower, and yellow thorn.

Caragana growing habits

Caragana likes light and tolerates cold, has strong adaptability, tolerates drought and barren soil, and prefers warm, moist, well-drained sandy loam; it dislikes waterlogging. It often grows on sunny hillsides.

Caragana has a well-developed root system with root nodules, is drought-resistant and barren-tolerant, and can grow in cracks between rocks. It dislikes waterlogging. Its sprouting ability and suckering ability are both strong, and it can reproduce naturally by seed. Caragana grows even better in deep, fertile, moist sandy loam.

Distribution areas of Caragana

Caragana is mainly produced in northern and central China, and is also distributed in the southwest. It is cultivated in Japanese gardens.

In China, Caragana is most commonly seen on sunny slopes in hilly and mountainous areas of the Yangtze River basin and North China, and is now widely cultivated as a garden flower.

Wild mountain Caragana is distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

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