Flowers:
Yellow (Unique, bright golden yellow petals with a large dome of similar-colored stamens)
Foliage:
Green (Glossy dark green; no appreciable fall color)
Fruit:
Brown (3-valved cone-shaped capsule; not ornamentally important)
Soil:
Quite tolerant to a wide range of soils, including dry, rocky, sandy, or calcareous soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (1-3" long by 0.25-0.5" wide) are opposite, simple, oblanceolate with an obtuse apex. Bark on older stems peels and exfoliates. The showy flowers, borne in small cymes, are 0.75-1" across with 5 petals and a large dome of numerous long stamens.
