Botanical Name: Pyracantha
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Common Name: Pyracantha  
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Replace turf with groundcovers, trees, and shrubs. If you have areas where no one uses the grass, patches that do not grow well, or a turf area too small to water without runoff, consider replacing the turf with water-efficient landscaping.

  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Broadleaf Evergreen, Shrub

 

Height Range

1-3', 3-6', 6-12'

 

Flower Color

White

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Dark Green

 

Bark Color

Brown

 

Fruit Color

Orange, Red, Yellow

 

Fruit Season

Fall

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: Connon Nursery
  • Description

  • Notes

Pyracantha are fast-growing, evergreen shrubs that range in size from large, upright, arching, mounding masses to lower-growing, creeping, suckering groundcovers. All have clusters of fragrant white, spring flowers that mass in clusters along the ends of the previous years branches. Blossoms are followed by berries that ripen in the fall, and depending on the variety, are in shades of red to orange, to yellow. Leaves are small, dark green, glossy, and evergreen. The branches are populated with stiff, sharp thorns. It provides year-long interest to the shrub border, but I'd plant it where you don't have to get too close. The branches with either the flowers or berries, however, are striking in vases.