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Forsythia europaea
Forsythia europaea is a shrub in the olive family, native to Montenegro and northern Albania, and the only Forsythia species native to Europe. It is grown as a hardy garden shrub valued mainly for its yellow spring flowers, though less ornamental than its East Asian relatives.
Forsythia europaea, commonly known as Albanian forsythia or European forsythia, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family, with a native range from Montenegro to northern Albania. It is the only species of Forsythia native to Europe; prior to its discovery in Albania in 1897, it was thought that all species within the genus Forsythia were native to East Asia.
F. europaea was first cultivated in 1899, at Kew Gardens in London, United Kingdom. It is not as widely cultivated as other species of Forsythia as it is not as ornamental, although it is still occasionally grown in parks and gardens.
Cultivars produced by hybridisation of F. europaea with F. ovata, a more ornamental species of Forsythia native to Korea, include:
Showy forsythia · Gaenari · Early forsythia · Weeping forsythia · Greenstem forsythia · Forsythias
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Forsythia europaea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
