Dwarf but upright growing evergreen shrubs with small, shiny and dark green fragrant leaves.  The broadly funnel-shaped yellow flowers appear in mid-spring.  This rare (in cultivation) alpine species provides a nice color contrast with the purple and bluish shades so predominant in this subsection.  Best in a cool but bright site with excellent drainage.  Known only from NW Sichuan, China where it occurs in various alpine habitats from 10,000 to 13,000 ft.

1973/106  ROBB:BRY  (-5\R2\3).  Pale yellow flowers flushed red in bud.

1975/312  Glendoick  (-5).  Dwarf species, but of determined columnar habit with three-quarter inch glossy bright green leaves and very early sparkling lemon flowers.

2000sd178  RSBG  (-15\R2\2).  These are grown from seed collected wild in NW Sichuan by Daniel Winkler.

flavidum var. flavidum

Columnar shrubs to 8 ft.  Flowers (April) are pale yellow.  A demanding species with a very limited distribution in the wild.  Native to alpine regions from 10,000 to 13,000 ft.  China.

1973/106  FR:PHB  (-5).  Early light lemon flowers sparkle against shiny dark green leaves.

1976/385  STR:UBC  (-5).  Form with yellow flowers.