This shrub has upright slender-arching, thorny reddish stems that form a compact irregular bun-shape. It has dark green oval leaves that turn reddish in autumn and the bright yellow cup-shaped flowers that appear in a pendant cluster in early summer. 

Hardiness zones 6 to 9 

Berberis jamesiana is naturally found in western China growing in north-west Yemen in the valleys and the adjoining the mountains along the margins of woodlands up to an altitude of 2050 m (6765 ft). 

It prefers an open sunny to partially shaded position and grows in most well-drained fertile moist soils that are tending acidic and is frost and mildly drought tolerant.

This barberry is grown for its pendant flowers and shrubby habit. It is plant long borders as a foundation plant or used for screening and as a lawn specimen. It is suitable to coastal and inland regions establishing in 3-4 years and is long-lived. This easy to grow shrub tolerates most conditions except waterlogging and is planted in parks and medium-size gardens. ID 3593

Berberis (BER-be-ris) jamesiana (JAYM-see-AH-nah)

Berberidaceae (BER-be-rid-AY-see-ee)