syn. ‘Canary Bird’. This excellent cultivar of R. xanthina is one of the earliest to flower, and one of the best yellow roses for any garden. It appears to be a very good clone of Rosa xanthina, a native of north western China. The flowers are bright yellow, opening in series all down the somewhat weeping stems, the leaves with usually 9 rounded leaflets, with some scent Very hardy, to zone 4 in North America. ‘Helen Knight’, and ‘Golden Chersonese’ are similar, but have smaller, deeper yellow flowers, and are hybrids with Rosa ecae, the small-flowered species from Central Asia. Zone 5, will survive down to –25°C.