Forsythia 'Arnold Dwarf'
Sponsor
Kindly sponsored by
Monique Gudgeon, Sculpture by the Lakes
Credits
Owen Johnson (2022)
Recommended citation
Johnson, O. (2022), 'Forsythia 'Arnold Dwarf'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Forsythia europaea
- Forsythia 'Fontanna'
- Forsythia 'Ford Freeway'
- Forsythia giraldiana
- Forsythia 'Gold Splash'
- Forsythia 'Golden Times'
- Forsythia 'Happy Centennial'
- Forsythia 'Helios'
- Forsythia × intermedia
- Forsythia japonica
- Forsythia 'Kanárek'
- Forsythia × kobendzae
- Forsythia koreana
- Forsythia likiangensis
- Forsythia 'Little Renee'
- Forsythia 'Maluch'
- Forsythia × mandshurica
- Forsythia 'Meadowlark'
- Forsythia nakaii
- Forsythia 'New Hampshire Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Sun'
- Forsythia ovata
- Forsythia 'Paulina'
- Forsythia 'Princeton Gold'
- Forsythia 'Robusta'
- Forsythia saxatilis
- Forsythia 'Spring Beauty'
- Forsythia 'Spring Gold'
- Forsythia suspensa
- Forsythia 'Tremonia'
- Forsythia × variabilis
- Forsythia 'Verfors'
- Forsythia viridissima
- Forsythia 'Winterthur'
- Forsythia 'Yatgold'
USDA Hardiness Zone 5
RHS Hardiness Rating H6
A hybrid raised by Dr Karl Sax at the Arnold Arboretum in 1941; Sax crossed an unrecorded clone of Forsythia × intermedia with the recently introduced low-growing Korean F. saxatilis (or with F. japonica in Donald Wyman’s account (Wyman 1961), which is less reliable).
‘Arnold Dwarf’ makes a plant less than 1 m tall whose branches layer easily at their tips, making it of some use for ground-cover. Its strongly-toothed leaves are only 3–5 cm long, and bright green. Its soft yellow ‘pin-eyed’ flowers are unreliable (Bean 1981; Edwards & Marshall 2019).
