General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height: 18 to 24 inches (45-60 cm)
Plant Spread: 18 to 24 inches (45-60 cm)
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Yellow Fairy Bells
  • Yellow Fairybells
  • Yellow Mandarin
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Disporum uniflorum
  • Synonym: Disporum flavens
Also sold as:
  • Disporum flavum

Photo Gallery
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2012-03-29
Location: Clement Gray Bowers Rhododendron Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Date: 05/20/2003
photo [as D. sessile ssp. flavens] by Cornell Plantations via Cor
Location: Clement Gray Bowers Rhododendron Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Date: 05/20/2003
photo [as D. sessile ssp. flavens] by Cornell Plantations via Cor
Location: Osaka Prefectural Flower Garden, Osaka, Japan.
Date: April 26, 2009
Photo taken by: KENPEI
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2011-04-17
Location: At the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Yellow Fairy Bells (Disporum uniflorum) 001
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2016-04-02
Emerging spring growth

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2015-04-24
Location: At the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Yellow Fairy Bells (Disporum uniflorum) 002
Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01
Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01

Photo courtesy of Joy Creek Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2010-05-06

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