Catalog Description
Vigorous, upright deciduous shrub with small, lustrous green leaves. Profuse, scarlet-red berries are excellent for adding refreshing color to the winter landscape. Makes an exciting specimen or accent in the shrub border. One of the last cultivars to drop its leaves in fall. Full sun to part shade for best growth and fruit production. A great landscape shrub, reaching 4 to 12 feet tall and wide. |
Design Ideas
A colorful native shrub for wild and habitat gardens. Exceptional off season color for water conservative landscape. Perfect for cabins and rural sites as well as expansive suburban grounds. May be used as a screen for privacy or to block views of unsightly land uses. Vital to the winter or holiday decorator's garden and flower arrangers too. |
Companion Plants
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate growing to 4 to 12 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Vigorous, upright deciduous shrub with small, lustrous green leaves. Profuse, scarlet-red berries are excellent for adding refreshing color to the winter landscape. One of the last cultivars to drop its leaves in fall. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear to shape in early spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Round |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 9 (>120 to 150 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 6 (-10 to 0 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Inconspicuous
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Insignificant flowers |
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Propagation
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Attributes
Attractive Fruit
Attracts Wildlife
Berries
Deer Resistant
Extremely Hardy
Fruit-Bearing
Hedge Plant
Native Plant
Naturalizes Well
Prairie Garden
Tolerates Poor Soils
Tolerates Wet Soils
Woodland Garden |
Foliage
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Plant Lore
Birds, deer and of course, opossums are attracted to the fruit. |
Plant History
This native shrub or small tree is native to a huge range of North America from central states to the east coast. It is found on poorly drained limestone soils and is a wetland indicator plant. This variety is the result of a branch sport discovered at Otis Warren and Son Nursery, Oklahoma City, OK. |
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