Flower Notes:
Pink (Many-stamened flowers are pink to white and small, borne in 1-2" wide corymbs; late spring)
Foliage Notes:
Red (Bronzy wine red summer foliage); Orange (Orange fall color)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Attractive, inflated, red follicles (seed capsules))
Soil Notes:
Very adaptable to almost any soil
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Alternate, simple, roundish-ovate, bronzy wine-red leaves (1-3" long and half as wide). Cordate at base, crenate-dentate, and having 3-5 lobes that are more deeply cut than the species type.