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Distribution:  New Brunswick to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. Cultivated since 1736.

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Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 2 - 8       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   6-8 ft. tall (up to15 ft. tall), with a similar spread.

Form:   Deciduous. Dense, multi-stemmed shrub, rounded with upright stems, eventually arching towards the ground.

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Stem/Bud:   Buds are imbricate (one of the few Viburnums with imbricate buds), arrowhead-shaped.

Leaves:   Leaves are opposite, ovate, l-3 inches long, with a very coarse dentate margin, dark green, glabrous and lustrous above, with a thinner texture than most Viburnums.

Fall Color:   Fall color is yellow to red to purple.

Flower:   Flowers are creamy white, borne in a 2-4 inch flat-topped cyme in late May - early June.

Fruit:   Fruit is a blue to black drupe, in late Sept. through Oct.

Uses:   Border, informal hedge, screen, naturalizing. Wet sites. Dry sites.

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Notes:    Useful as an informal hedge and in shrub borders. Flowers not fragrant.

Notes 2:   Deer resistant. Native to Michigan.

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