Rolf Nussbaumer / Common Berberry blossom {Berberis vulgaris} Lake Neusiedl, Austria, April

Yuri Shibnev / Twinleaf {Jeffersonia dubia} flowering, Ussuriland, Primorski, Far East Russia

Vladimir Kolbintsev / {Leontice albertii} in flower, Asky-Jabagly NR, Western Tien Shan Mountains, South Kazakstan, Russia

Mark Moffett / Japanese Barberry (Berberis dictyophylla) blossoms with spines, a tonic derived from the plant eases intestinal distress, Sichuan Province, China

Pascal Tordeux / European Barberry (Berberis vulgaris). French Alps, June.