Description

Callicarpa americana, American beautyberry 4-12″ Wholesale Native Bare Root Shrubs

Attractive berries:
Attractive Flowers:
Average-Dry soil:
Average to moist soil:
Average Wildlife Value:
Beneficial Insects:
Clay Soil – High clay content, fine texture:
Drought Tolerant:
Dry-Moist Soil:
FACU – Usually occur in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands:
Four Season Interest:
Full – Part Sun (6+ hours of sun):
Loamy Soil – mostly silt, sand, some clay:
Moist Soil:
Native to Coastal Regions:
Sandy soil, coarse texture:
Shrub:
Small Mammals:
Songbirds:
Threatened / Endangered:
Winter interest:
Full Sun:

Minimum purchase of 50 plants required.

Botanic Name (s): Callicarpa americana
Common Name(s): American beautyberry, French mulberry
Mature height: 6′
Mature spread: 6′
Flower Color / Bloom Time: White / July-August
Fruit: Purple berry / September-March
Fall Color: Yellow
Sun Exposure:

• Full Sun
• Part Sun

Soil moisture:

• Dry
• Average
• Moist

Soil Ph: 4.8-7

Soil Type:

• Clay Soil – High clay content, fine texture
• Loamy Soil – Mostly silt, sand, some clay
• Organic Soil – High level of decayed leaves, bark
• Sandy Soil – Coarse texture

Native Habitat: Found in woods, moist thickets, wet slopes, low rich bottomlands, and at the edges of swamps in the Piney Woods, Post Oak Woods, Blackland woodlands, and coastal woodlands. Moist woods; coastal plains; swamp edges, bottomlands
Notes: The seeds and berries are important foods for many species of birds, particularly the Northern Bobwhite.
Average Wildlife Value:

• Beneficial Insects
• Butterflies
• Songbirds
• Small Mammals

FACU – Usually occur in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands
Native to Coastal Regions

Threatened / Endangered: Maryland

Native Shrub