Common barberry – barberry
thorn shrub, medium size (do 2,5 m). Small leaves, ovate. It blooms in May and June. Yellow flowers, gathered in clusters. Fruit in clusters, Red, minor, length approx. 1 cm, sour, meets in September and October, best slightly frozen. Common barberry grows most often in the Lublin region, and also in the lowlands and lower mountain regions, in the bushes, on the edges of the forest and forest hills (exterminated in open areas and on forest edges, because its leaves are transferred to cereals, the so-called. double-house rust).