Native plant to replace invasive non-native nandina in Houston We would like a type of shrub for the front of our home which is partial shade, similar style to a boxwood or trainable hedge. Shrub for part shade for hedge in Holly Ridge NC Foliage is a favorite of White-tailed Deer. The seeds and berries are important foods for many species of birds, particularly the Northern Bobwhite.
Fruit distinctly colored, rose pink or lavender pink, berrylike, about 1/4 inch long and 3/16 inch wide, in showy clusters, persisting after the leaves have fallen. Flowers small, pink, in dense clusters at the bases of the leaves, clusters usually not exceeding the leaf petioles. Leaves in pairs or in threes, blades half as wide as long and up to 9 inches long, ovate to elliptic, pointed or blunt at the tip and tapered to the base margins coarsely toothed except toward the base and near the tip, teeth pointed or rounded lower surface of young leaves covered with branched hairs. Bark smooth, with elongate, raised corky areas (lenticels) twigs round to 4 sided, covered with branched hairs visible under a l0x hand lens. Bark light brown on the older wood, reddish brown on younger wood. It has long, arching branches and yellow-green fall foliage, but its most striking feature is the clusters of glossy, iridescent-purple fruit (sometimes white) which hug the branches at leaf axils in the fall and winter. in height in favorable soil and moisture conditions. tall and usually just as wide, It can reach 9 ft. lactea USDA Symbol: caam2 USDA Native Status: L48 (N)Īmerican beauty-berry most often grows 3-5 ft. American Beautyberry, French Mulberry Verbenaceae (Verbena Family) Synonym(s): Callicarpa americana var.
Leander, Bruce Callicarpa americana Callicarpa americana L.