Often called the harbinger of spring, forsythia blooms in bright yellow flowers before its leaves emerge. This creates impressive golden dots in landscapes that break up the gloomy, snowy ground with the promise of what is to come.
Forsythia is the common and generic name for a group of deciduous flowering shrubs in the Oleaceae family (olive). The 11 or thereabout species[1] are native to eastern Asia, with just one species native to Europe.
